How To Use Bend In A Sentence

In order to prevent the pipe buckling at the sagbend a horizontal tension was applied to the pipe by tensioners situated on the deck of the vessel.
At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season. AZ Snakepit
The early commercial pea crops weren't sown in rows like home gardens, but were planted over the whole paddock and required a great deal of bending over to harvest the sweet green pods.
Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography.

And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
Finally, a small number of participants discussed their experiences with gender-bending - that is, pretending to be of the opposite sex - during an online sexual encounter.
The motorcyclist had a brush with danger as he skidded round the bend.
Worse, as the streams bend to equalize pressure behind the foil, and may set up a turbulent gyre further slowing the foil by induced drag.
See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The horse should bend throughout his whole body and not just through his head and neck.
The cliffs closed in as the river swept round a bend, its waves slapping against vertical rocks.
The steering is agile and responsive and it takes tight bends in its stride. The Sun
Also, I have this weird need to be the bendiest and stretchiest in class, and to have the teachers notice and comment on said bendy-stretchiness, preferably where other people can hear. Ampersand
The fears are all thanks to a purported prediction of a major Roman quake Wednesday attributed to self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979. Quakes hit Italy, but none in Rome despite myth
Lie flat, bend the knees, then straighten the legs upwards.
The struggles are still being felt, even now that I've graduated and moved away from South Bend, Indiana. Tanya Barrios: Coming Out at Notre Dame
Grecian; they had laughing eyes their figures were models for an artist with — “Turgide, brune, e ritondette mamme.” like the ‘bending statue’ that delights the world. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
At the bend, go straight on to the track by the cottages, and dog-leg left then right to pass the barn.
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
The hellbender can reach 750 mm.
The bending property in transverse direction of tin-phosphor bronze strip is a very important quality index which has a great inference on the quality of final products.
The three riders rounded the bend, as Garon's front entrance came into view the trio slowed down the pace of their horses and rode alongside each other.
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend … Think Progress » Claiming God’s Support, Conservatives Push Massive Budget Cuts
When seedlings suddenly bend at the soil line, it's often the work of a fungal disease called damping off.
Our little group walked slowly over to the bend of the river. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
Not surprisingly, the twistiness of the daffodil was much higher (fourteen times higher, in fact) than its bendiness, explaining why these plants are far more likely to turn in the wind than to bend over.
Playing the game fairly means not bending the rules because you feel sorry for someone or cheating because you think your opponent doesn't deserve to win.
From a standing position bend your left knee and cross your right leg around your left leg, hooking your right foot on your left leg. Times, Sunday Times
“Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight,” said the The Talisman
In practice, this enables you to steer easily round hairpin bends. Times, Sunday Times
If it happens too quickly, the gas forms bubbles in the blood that can block small arteries and cause the bends.
Perhaps you wonder how so numerous a race of these beings has come to exist; but that boy at your elbow, bending under the weight of his literary burden, is a colporteur for converting the men and women of this "enlightened nation" to rowdyism. The Elements of Character
The tide is running with us and we make good speed down-river around the bend from Westminster and from there to the opposite shore of the river. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
I then slip his glasses off before he bends them out of shape like he has before.
The crash occurred on a sharp bend.
Most of the city's top tourist sights lie within a single wide bend in the river.
The Upper Series consists of a main passage about 200 metres long, divided into two by a right-angled bend where it connects with The Bye Pass Crawl from the Far Eastern Bedding Plane.
She rounded the bend into the quiet road where the hotel was.
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
The depth of the tie beam was minimized to avoid transverse bending from the tower legs.
But we spent more than an hour pedalling up the steep hairpin bends. The Sun
For a half-dozen albums, the sentimental chanteuse has avoided mimicking other people's songs, opting instead to bend and deconstruct the material to fit her mood.
The bending of sunlight by the raindrops is the key to forming the colorful rainbows.
Not even big humps can unsettle the Hydractive suspension which also stops the car rolling severely in tight bends.
Currently studying Law at Melbourne University, she was dux of Girton Grammar School in Bendigo, received a Premiers Award, the Australia Award and received the highest VCE score in all of regional Victoria.
Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
With a new blade in a utility knife, score the veneer front then back, flush with the stile on all edges; and bend it to complete the cut.
If rules are set then follow them, places that have designated smoking areas are already one step closer to a complete ban and by bending the rules you are not helping yourself or fellow smokers.
My index finger now only overlaps my middle finger a bit, but I can't bend it at all.
If you do, and you are perhaps more familiar with The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (also featuring Lovecraft), then the aforementioned is very much in the tradition of this book, except Shadows Bend does not suffer from the sometimes tedious diversions in the other book. Superhero Prose Fiction: Related - Shadows Bend
Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
But then the path would bend, and there it would be again, closer.
It can run past the rings and cause the motor to bend rods, which is very costly and makes a mess in the water when the oil sump is ruptured.
She was a seven-foot-tall, 480-pound frontierswoman from the Utah Territory who could shoot and drink like a man and bend nails with her tongue.
And as you recover, you'll need specific exercises to help the joint flex and bend more often. Times, Sunday Times
-- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. Ivanhoe. A Romance
It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster. The Three Clerks
It's probably true that somewhere there is a bendy bus with your name on it. Times, Sunday Times
The snot otter, a.k.a. hellbender, is a giant salamander that oozes a slightly toxic slime. Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter
Such an unbending position was his ‘obligation’ to the public.
One of the oldest dances in the world, belly dancing is super feminine and made for divas with belly rolls, shimmies, deep backbends and hip bumps - moves easily incorporated into modern street dancing.
The degree of bending will then influence the angle at which the puck leaves the stick.
The ball is so outstretched that Edney can not bend his elbow to use his upper-arm muscles.
But as we rounded a bend, we saw that two cars had been stopped ahead of us by men in combat fatigues at a roadblock. Times, Sunday Times
The danseuse's grace emphasised the flavour of Odissi, marked by the bends in the body, neck, knees and waist.
The ability to collapse their lung air-sacs with increasing depth is probably the dolphin's major protection against the bends.
The accident happened as Fogarty tried to overtake Robert Ulm on a bend during the fifth lap.
He takes his place in the new date-unspecific, genre-bending scheme of things with assurance rather than gaucheness. Times, Sunday Times
The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.
Russie is pursued by cruel foe, He rides away, and suddenly betakes him to his boe, And bends me but about in saddle as be sits, And therewithall amids his race his following foe he hits. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It's sort of a twist and twirl as he's bending down. Times, Sunday Times
Before hopping my way unsteadily to the bathroom where I managed to bend myself in ways I never thought possible to get my foot into the basin and under the cold tap!
I know it is somewhat uneventful, but I should point out that should one of the pins get bent, you are going to have a heck of a time unbending it, as the pins are extremely closely spaced together and quite tiny.
Weep not for roads untraveled. Weep not for paths left alone 'cause beyond every bend is a long blinding end.
These studies have led to the findings that bundles of several doublet microtubules can propagate bending waves, and a pair of outer doublets can undergo cyclical association/dissociation interaction.
The bending PZT are located at the antinodal plane of bend wave of transducer, and the bending vibration of transducer is excited by the longitudinal vibration of bending PZT. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
In the Champagnat model, the mixed axes have a spiral phyllotaxis and begin their growth with an orthotropic direction before they bend under their own weight.
By itself, it is enough to bend and move a heart of stone. Christianity Today
Although most optical light is unpolarized – consisting of light with an equal mix of all polarizations – the extreme bending of energetic particles around a magnetic field line can polarize light. World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today
(And probably whether the rumors are true that Gisele Bundchen is "bendy".) Shaneika Dabney: The Good the Bad and the Sexy: Saints Practice with Patriots...and Bon Jovi
In ancient heraldry a bendlet azure on a coat was a mark of cadency.
Arctic Village is an assembly of 40-odd spruce-log cabins that overlook the serpentine bends, oxbows, and channels of the East Fork.
Without adding much weight to a structure, struts allow it to resist bending and buckling.
I love both ... nothing beats the excitement of exploring new hunting territory and hoping that new hotspot is just around the next bend ... still, the knowledge gained by hunting the same piece of country, season after season, is invaluable and only comes with time ... Do you prefer hunting an area you know very well and have hunted often, or do you like the challenge and adventure of hunting ne
From the vein that passes through the liver two branches separate off, of which one terminates in the diaphragm or so-called midriff, and the other runs up again through the armpit into the right arm and unites with the other veins at the inside of the bend of the arm; and it is in consequence of this local connexion that, when the surgeon opens this vein in the forearm, the patient is relieved of certain pains in the liver; and from the left-hand side of it there extends a short but thick vein to the spleen and the little veins branching off it disappear in that organ. The History of Animals
Google uses this method in a program they wrote called courgette to reduce the size of the patches it sends out for Chrome, but Red Bend the mobile phone software company has a patent on this method and has filed suit against Google. The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents
But electromagnetic fields can bend them, to form images. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
At the scene of her first fender-bender -- in Altadena -- she emerged from her little coupe with dark glasses, chignon and wide-brimmed hat all firmly in place. Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Selling Mother's Louis Vuittons on eBay
When I bend anything for the sake of creativity I try to make sure the bending is part of a grand reality that then carries throughout the whole existence of the work. The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
The basal part of the stem was submitted to a transient controlled bending at constant displacement rate using a motorized dynamometer.
The steward was buttoning another vest over his ample body as he approached, bending forward to meet the storm.
He was skinny and bendy and flexible. The Sun
We rounded the bend at high speed.
Bend arm slowly upwards so your hand is touching your shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
Triclabendazole, a benzimidazole compound, has recently been registered in Egypt for the treatment of human fascioliasis. Chapter 2
Bradley Johnson's miskick in the six-yard box gifted Bendtner an opportunity at the near post, but the forward saw his flick touched across the face of goal by Ruddy. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
He is bending down to tie his shoelaces.
The rheological properties of soy proteins were investigated respectively using a capillary rheometry and a Brabender torque rheometry.
Your core muscles are recruited in most of your daily body movements, whether you are bending over, turning your upper body or reaching sideways.
Bend from the waist, thus.
A pyrometric cone is a cone made of a ceramic material that will deform or bend when a predetermined temperature is reached. Chapter 11
Bend right knee and lower left hand toward right foot. The Sun
It took what that literal fellow, Captain Lawton, calls a circumbendibus, The Spy
Regional and temporal variation in bending moments and power production have also been predicted to occur during steady undulatory swimming in fish.
So I turned the car around, went back on myself to before the sharp bend and then turned the car round again so I was facing the way of my original direction before I saw the lights.
On the fringes of this retinue, lions and crocodiles pounce on their victims while an elephant runs amok, and at the centre is the Navab, enlarged as befits his status, bending from his richly caparisoned mount to slash at a lion.
D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
Ideal conditions will include lack of wind, cool temperatures and a looped course with no sharp bends. Times, Sunday Times
On the motorway you can cruise along in comfort mode, switching to sport on the A-roads, flicking to advanced sport to hug corners and bends.
A young man was bending low to push a heavily loaded barrow up a slope.
TWO divers had to be winched aboard a helicopter and flown ashore suffering from the bends. The Sun
The effects of bending are neglected to first approximation, and the dominant resistance to indentation is taken as the isotropic tension.
An air of mystery surrounds plans being drawn up for a new road that will cut out the bad bends at the notorious Cononley Lane Ends.
Lift them from the sheet and bend them over upturned egg cups to form baskets.
Bend your arms at right angles and pump them to help to get you up the stairs. Times, Sunday Times
They were diverted from flooded roads twice, then found themselves in a traffic jam caused by a multicar fender bender. WRECKED
The 4mm safety glass used to make the Quality Mat gives it a very solid feel - there is no way that this surface should bend, warp or distort.
Beckham's scoring strike off a restart is his hallmark and showed why he was the inspiration for the 2003 motion picture "Bend It Like Beckham. USATODAY.com - Beckham bends England to 1-0 victory over Ecuador
One day the GMO, bending down, was going to collapse and die on top of one of the bodies. MURDER SONG
_Representacion a la muy bendita pasion y muerte de nuestro precioso Four Plays of Gil Vicente
Like I have said I have a letter from major marcels son who saw the wreckage and in this letter he says "the wreckage was nothing like a weather balloon" it was as thin as tin foil yet you could not bend it or break it, let alone eve scratch its surface! The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4
Castle Street's dog-leg bend will be straightened out to meet with Caroline Street and the resulting redundant area will then be turned into parking bays for future residents.
The busty waitress serving them winked flirtatiously at Spike, bending in just the right way to show off her trim waist and ample bosom.
Change that does occur in the tabularium of geniculate corals is limited to the tabulae themselves; at the bends tabulae are more complete and widely spaced than those above or below.
This helps prevent them from drooping or even completely bending over and breaking their stalks.
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They sat in a circle, their sketch books on their laps or bended knees, though none of them seemed to be paying attention to their work.
Sometimes the metal “jellifies,” turning soft and losing form, leading to severe bending or fracturing of the sample. Scientists See WTC - Hutchison Effect Parallel
Reaching lengths of over two feet in length and weighing over 3 lbs., the hellbender is the largest amphibian species found in North America and the third largest salamander in the world, coming in behind the Chinese and the Japanese giant salamanders which are truly massive. David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits
It is possible to bend nature to human will?
He even overtook Denmark's Mickael Rasmussen, who had started out six minutes before him but had a disastrous ride on the tricky and technical route's sharp bends, fast downhills and tiring uphills.
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These treats, though hard, are bendier than they are brittle and likely to crumble when chomped down on. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Her flexile body bends, her white feet glide.
Maybe he asked, because he got an answer -- from the grinning, freckled face bending over him, as he lay, armorless, on a sort of pallet, under the taut stellene roof of a Moontent. The Planet Strappers
Engineers can also readily mold or bend the materials at room temperature into various shapes, a property called superplasticity.
Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, or in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse ways and not in the same direction, as in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite way to C, where the convexities are turned towards one another and the concavities outwards. On the Gait of Animals
A posse of hip downtown lesbians explore cowboy mythology with gender-bending glee, using every multimedia trick in the book.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I ` m standing in the north bend, and there ` s a piece that ` s about a third of the way south that kind of buckles, and that ` s preventing the view into the water from the north end. CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007
Within each colonial prebend tribal jealousies and differences were exploited by colonial masters to maximize political power and economic advantage. Matthew Bergman: The Obama Manifesto
I denied homosexual inclinations but he still made me bend down so that he could inspect my behind with a wooden spatula.
The pair had decided to explore the north of Tenerife and were rounding a bend when they collided with the car. Times, Sunday Times
When their feeling for the river's lore drew them, by a spiritual gravitation, to a common centre -- to learn, for instance, that Council Bend and Council Island were named for one of those historic "confabs" between the white man and the red which shouldered the red brother once and forever away from the sunrise and across the great river -- that centre of gravity was the captain's chair, their tutor the first mate. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
Keeping your abdominal muscles tight, bend your elbows to lower your chest almost to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Our house is round the next bend.
But, like Jim Isermann's mind-bending geometric rug works, Leachman's paintings transcend the usual categories.
Bend over and touch your toes.
The hinges are flat straps across the front, which bend over the pintles and form a short neat strap on the back, ending in split curls.
In the ship Chief Bender, Mohawk and steelman extraordinary, talked to the Shed and to one Charley Red Fox. Space Tug
A partner helps secure the board while the nailer bends backward pushing the groove hard onto the tongue with one hand and driving the nail in with the other.
Each bend in the road reveals yet another breathtaking panorama of the Dinara Mountains that sweep down to the Adriatic, a deep cobalt sea under an azure sky.
One woman and six men died when the tram derailed after the driver took a sharp bend at more than the maximum 12mph. The Sun
The residents' acute fear of crime is itself a source of real danger, warns Budapest fire chief Peter Bende.
She glared at her plastered mother, bending over to clean up the broken pieces of the mug.
Suddenly, one of our number appears from around the bend upstream and makes towards us. Times, Sunday Times
Around the bend in the path came a soft, pale, velvety nose, attached to a large, prancing, silky brown body bearing a well-filled udder between the hind legs.
Moreover, Zonabend states that the last-born of many siblings - starting with a seventh child in the actual case she provides - are not to have ordinary godparents and, therefore, strangers are often accepted for the task.
It's hard to bend an iron bar.
Jump up one to two inches off the floor, then bend both knees back into a squatting position to land. Times, Sunday Times
We assessed the predictive value of the fulcrum bending radiograph in the context of alternate-level pedicle screw fixation of the scoliotic spine.
A Baltimore research team has developed a technique for building electrical circuitry that can bend and stretch like rubber.
The TV network begged her on bended knee to return to the program.
Oak may bend but will not break.
She drew herself up like a queen, but only that she might look queenlier for his sake, and, bending, kissed his brow, and whispered back his vows. A Mountain Woman
Encourage the stem that will form the new plant to grow straight by gently bending it into an upright position and attaching it to a cane.
Take a plier and bend the tip of the rod to straighten it. From The Tips Box: Fruit Flies, Keyboard Adjustments, Booze | Lifehacker Australia
In 1780, he was installed prebendary at Carlisle, and resigned Appleby on becoming archdeacon in 1782.
Thin, light soft bouncy sole bends very easily, because this takes a route, will freely easily.
For steel, as temperature increases, E material bendiness decreases, and IIRC at 1000°F is about 50% of its room temperature value. The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
Slowly bend your arms to lower your body until your elbows are flexed at right angles. The Sun
Mr. Morris grabbed every chance to bend a phrase lyrically, as when, alone in the woods, Siegfried wonders what his mother was like and who his father was. NYT > Home Page
A self-sufficient settlement is analogous to a pin worker who must cut, bend, attach, and deliver by himself.
Mayors and city councils are all along the (Rio Grande)real grand river, which forms the border with Mexico are (banding)bending together in an effort to start(stop) construction of the fence.
Suddenly Mr. Podgers dropped Lord Arthur's right hand, and seized hold of his left, bending down so low to examine it that the gold rims of his spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm.
Then the twist of the scissile bond, together with the bending of − 1 NAG, makes the glycosidic oxygen accessible to the catalytic residue Glu315 for cleavage PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
May 25th, 2010 at 9: 40 am fender-bender in: Science & Technology News More Minor Accidents Blamed on Wider Cars fender-bender – Impact Lab
And unlike wire hangers that bend over time, Kantor says eco hangers keep their shape.
Six is the usual number for barry, bendy and paly coats.
She later became a member of the Grand Rapids Ballet Company in Michigan and says she has a double-jointed back, which allows her to bend backwards from a standing position and touch her feet.
She bends forward from the waist.
Bending easily without falling off, she padded a soft material over the wire and fastened it together.
Minefields flank the road edge, marked by red-painted rocks, and any driver unlucky enough to misjudge one of the treacherous bends will find themself in the middle of one.
Lying flat on your back, bend the knees, then raise the legs. 14.
The photograph on the facing page shows a pair of pictures, illustrating two curved designs bending round towards each other.
As you walk faster, you will find the arms bend naturally and more quickly.
The band are waiting to see if their original indie label will bend to their wishes and release the single next year.
The twist is that the handle bends round underneath to form a coaster to collect any drips. Times, Sunday Times
It was a mind-bending feat, and it gave the Vietminh high ground above the French base. The French Connection
She started to bend to gather her cloak, but straightened at the last minute.
Slowly bend one knee towards your chest, without bending at the waist or hips. Times, Sunday Times
Push your hips skywards so that your body is in one line until the bend of the knee. Times, Sunday Times
Apple is also announcing peripherals, including an HDMI adapter for high-definition video output ($39), and Smart Covers, a new kind of magnetic cover with a bendable flap.
Walking over toward the table and bending down I adjusted myself to correctly break the triangle of balls before me that Zea had just finished racking.
Take a bow and stretch your latissimus dors Position yourself in front of an open door frame, grasp the door knob with both hands and slowly bend over, leaning your weight back towards your heels. Terry Gardner: No Gym - No Excuse: Part 1
A self-sufficient settlement is analogous to a pin worker who must cut, bend, attach, and deliver by himself.
He is forced to twist and bend the truth to justify his crimes.
They desire clear, unbending moral and behavioral codes, a fondness for systematization, a willingness to tolerate inequality and an inherently pessimistic view of human nature. June Carbone: Polarized Politics: How Extremists Have Taken America Hostage
She learned how to bend neon tubing into shapes and how to connect electrical circuits and insert rheostats and timers to provide special visual effects.

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