bends

An acquaintance of Lowell’s bemoaned the habit Lowell had of “jumping at some general idea or theorem,” after which he “selects and bends facts to underprop that generalization.”

But, overall, the arc of the tournament's history bends towards a better place.

It reminds me of that quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

She looks at him for a long second and then bends down to Stone.

Above Landman’s wrist, a zebra bends to graze, while a giraffe behind steps through a stand of wind-bent acacia trees.