bent
Example Sentences
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Once again, a boy from here teams up with a girl from there to defeat a villainous schemer bent on cruel domination.
Some of the largest structures there were buckled and bent, their windows shattered; the walls of others were being torn down by excavators.
From BBC
Beijing is bent on keeping the momentum going as it grapples with the U.S. for tech dominance, making autonomy in strategic sectors a core tenet of its five-year plan for the economy.
On either side, men bent at the waist, clearing fruit with one quick sweep of the knife and moving on to the next.
From Los Angeles Times
We rightly fear nuclear proliferation, and yet “amazing grace and good fortune,” and admirable postwar statecraft, “actually bent the arc of history.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
