unbend

“So by oscillating the voltage back and forth, you can bend and unbend the strip, which will generate waves to drive the movement,” Cohen says.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022

Even if your parents rage against that restriction, they can’t force you to unbend.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021

But every part of the process – including the coat hanger we unbend to use as a roasting spit — is a product of the Industrial Revolution.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018

As Charlie Price, the starchy young shoe factory heir who learns to unbend and open his mind under Lola’s tutelage, Andy Kelso is most charmingly awkward in the role created by Stark Sands.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015

At least a hundred years seemed to have passed before Shirley could bend and unbend her stubborn fingers well enough to hit each of the eight notes of the scale without disturbing its neighbor.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

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 ● Apr. 9, 2023

But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017

Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010

This is where the world unbends and it is well that there should be such a place.

From Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by Will Grefé

Jennie was his companion now, and as he more and more unbended, and even joyously flung aside the habiliments of his dignity, her perception of him grew clearer.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Then he unbended, and admitted me to the body of the auditorium, where I was conducted to a coign of vantage in near proximity to members of the fair sex and galaxy of beauty.

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey

The unbended sail Flaps idly in the passing wind; And dark below, each dull canal Is stagnant as its owner's mind!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

If she had a fault it was her unbended determination to go through with any thing she once undertook.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

"There have been pleadings, and revilings—tears, and curses— bended knees, and unbended arms."

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023

After Brown had enforced sufficient deference, he unbent a bit.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

"It's been run into by cars and bent and unbent, but it keeps going."

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2011

Then I stick a paper clip that I’ve unbent through a hole in the center and spin the wheel.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

In his one shot at the Champions League, Postecoglou was unbending in his attacking mindset even when drawn against Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

It set a template for the rest of her political career: unbending, strong, determined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

They have avoided internal divisions by falling in line behind their ideologically unbending leader.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

She smiled, and her manner instead of being still and unbending as it usually was became startlingly familiar, fawning even.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier