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

“You unbend your forehead at last,” said Mr. Rivers.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Some tell of deeds and lives sublime     And triumphs over foes; Some weave a spell of lofty rhyme,     Some charm with stately prose; And here and there a mind unbends Familiarly among my friends.

From Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse by W. M. MacKeracher

It was to no purpose, therefore, that Thwackum, who was immediately charged by Mr Blifil with the story, unbended all his rancour against poor Tom.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

All at once, from being the plodding, hard-working engineer, with responsibility and thought in every feature, Telford unbended and relaxed, and became the merriest and drollest of the party.

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

I must he in the battle, but I'll go With empty quiver, and unbended bow; Not draw an arrow in this fatal strife, For fear its point should reach your noble life.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

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

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

I had no desire to pry into M. Picot's secrets, but I could not help knowing that he had unbended to me because he was interested in the fur trade.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

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

She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2011

Yet his back was still unbent, and the years had not yet robbed him of his skill at arms.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

A two-time Tony winner, she is likely to win a third for her featured performance in “Salesman” as Willy Loman’s bracingly unbending wife, Linda.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

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

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have taken an unbending line in support of Ukraine, and this could make it difficult for one of their leaders to get the job.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

Clouds that gathered where ships were supposed to appear, and the passing of the day, slowly did the job of unbending my smile.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel