bends
Example Sentences
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Nearby, the water twisted and churned as it flowed through newly engineered log jams and bends.
From Seattle Times
The voice pirouettes and crip walks, flows and bends like alien cadences from an advanced civilization where “Dolemite” is revered as sacred text.
From Los Angeles Times
His desire to connect is felt in his crystalline voice on songs like “Love Is Blood,” which bends and snaps his lyrics toward new horizons of sound and emotion.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.
From Science Magazine
Cattails and grasses flank the marshy banks, snags stand in the muck and Douglas fir and cedar cast shadows across the creek’s meandering bends.
From Seattle Times
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