bending

Example Sentences

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“Harry’s 5’9”, Yaphet’s 6’3” and is always bending over, so from that you can calculate the corridors’ height.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

"We would say it's glancing contact, it's not full studs on the leg, bending over the leg."

From BBC • May 29, 2026

He traces how women’s-rights advocates, labor reformers and other movements seized the language of 1776 to press their own demands, bending its promises toward new ends.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime by mass, similar to how a heavy object distorts a stretched surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

“It would be bending the rules, but not exactly breaking them.”

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty