- present participle of bend.
bending
Example Sentences
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He wanted to push the limits, even if it meant bending the rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Advertisers are bending over backwards to fit “maxxing” into their marketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Imagine bending a flexible ruler, except the bend is squeezed into a space smaller than a billionth of a meter," said Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, a former Rice doctoral student and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jonah spit into the sink, bending low so she didn’t see how the word abandoned stabbed at him.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
