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Example sentences from the Web for bendsThe rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism. What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face?|Goldie Taylor|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST She holds up her phone to show a photo of UNDERWOOD looking at her ass as she bends over a Skee-Ball table at Chuck E. Cheese. Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden|Kelly Williams Brown|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST The arc of the moral universe is long, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, but it bends toward justice. Mandela and My Son|Yousef Munayyer|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST But Obama has proven himself to be a pragmatic politician, who bends to pressure as he did in abandoning plans to bomb Syria. Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick On How Obama Should Handle the Crisis In Syria|Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick|October 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The river slinks between lush trees, its bends offering cover to the solitary figure wading across. Life on the Syrian Border|Melik Kaylan|July 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST These are fastened to the tree by means of a bit of tin on the rim, which he bends over into the bark. Before he could formulate the idea that a boat must have been hit in the bends, there were several similar shocks. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer|Cyrus Townsend Brady The effect of the descent of One so high must be to raise the lowliness to which He bends. The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Volume III|Alexander Maclaren The wind passes and it bends—let the wind, too, pass over the spirit. The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies From time to time she rises on her stilts, bends into a ring, seizes her opaline bundle in her mandibles, and chews it gently. The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont
pl n the bends(functioning as singular or plural) a nontechnical name for decompression sickness Words nearby bendsBendigo, bending fracture, bending moment, bend one's elbow, bend over backwards, bends, bend sinister, bend someone's ear, bendy, bene-, beneath Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bendsflex, crouch, incline, veer, tilt, buckle, stoop, lean, bow, twist, curl, mold, sway, yield, bending, sag, crook, arc, corner, angle Medical definitions for bendsThe American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |