bending

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Sometimes, he found himself subtly bending his playing to the sounds of the cityscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 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

He looked me in the eye while bending down to sign Michaelson’s guest book, as if he expected me to not only recognize him but say something.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Connor scoops the box against his chest, bending his torso in a protective stance.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day