How To Use Bends In A Sentence
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The steering is agile and responsive and it takes tight bends in its stride.
The Sun
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In practice, this enables you to steer easily round hairpin bends.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it happens too quickly, the gas forms bubbles in the blood that can block small arteries and cause the bends.
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I then slip his glasses off before he bends them out of shape like he has before.
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But we spent more than an hour pedalling up the steep hairpin bends.
The Sun
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Not even big humps can unsettle the Hydractive suspension which also stops the car rolling severely in tight bends.
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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.
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The danseuse's grace emphasised the flavour of Odissi, marked by the bends in the body, neck, knees and waist.
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The ability to collapse their lung air-sacs with increasing depth is probably the dolphin's major protection against the bends.
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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
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Arctic Village is an assembly of 40-odd spruce-log cabins that overlook the serpentine bends, oxbows, and channels of the East Fork.
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Ideal conditions will include lack of wind, cool temperatures and a looped course with no sharp bends.
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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.
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TWO divers had to be winched aboard a helicopter and flown ashore suffering from the bends.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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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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Her flexile body bends, her white feet glide.
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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.
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Thin, light soft bouncy sole bends very easily, because this takes a route, will freely easily.
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She bends forward from the waist.
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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.
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The twist is that the handle bends round underneath to form a coaster to collect any drips.
Times, Sunday Times
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When there are many bends in the air path, ventilation resistance will increase.
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The twist is that the handle bends round underneath to form a coaster to collect any drips.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stream bends to the west.
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At the covered shelter, which gives the impression that the forest floor is growing above your head, the path bends to the left.
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Scooping a spoonful up, she bends her spoon, took aim and fired.
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He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches.
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As to flowers, they are the prettiest periodicals ever published in folio -- the leaves are wire-wove and hot-pressed by Nature's self; their circulation is wide over all the land; from castle to cottage they are regularly taken in; as old age bends over them, his youth is renewed; and you see childhood poring upon them, prest close to its very bosom.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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These things were initially brought in for deep-sea divers to get over the bends but now they are used widely in medicine and other sports.
Times, Sunday Times
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The three wavy bends on the shield are the three main rivers in the district.
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Images of dissected tendon taken under the light microscope show that fibrils can sustain sharp bends or kinks along their length.
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We slide past a row of fencing, Jake changing to second gear in the side of my vision, and the path bends a few metres in.
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At 56 feet long the vehicle should have had a struggle to negotiate twists and turns - but the sharpest of bends was taken with ease.
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This rod is supple in the tip, but becomes powerful as it bends towards the butt.
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Couldn't you place the bends on mundane stretches of the road and leave the spectacular views cleared for observation and enjoyment?
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In humans, this is known as decompression sickness, or the bends.
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The track bends round to a junction with a yellow waymarker on the left.
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He traps it between his legs, bends over at 90 degrees, and begins 70 to 150 ‘blows’ or strokes with his shears.
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They also back a series of road safety measures and traffic restrictions, including crawler lanes, realigning bends and traffic lights.
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The tight, banked bends on indoor tracks mean a tall athlete with a long stride length will struggle in the 200m and 400m.
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The route soon turns into hairpin bends where the area is dotted with tea estates.
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And so she pulls them apart and then bends a few things and 5 minutes later I have some wearable glasses.
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These athletes have had to adjust to being forced with G-factors around the bends of the course that are 3 or 4 G, and staying with the Skeleton sled to the bottom.
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One of my many lucrative pre-bends is as a Serial Killer Parole Judge for Ontario.
Archive 2007-06-01
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When she bends backwards and kicks her heels, she is in constant danger of dislodging the rose behind her ear.
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The most dangerous medical problems are barotrauma to the lungs and decompression sickness, also called ‘the bends.’
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Cardenas, who bends over to pick up a piece of popcorn off the suite's carpeted floor, is also known as a stickler for cleanliness and a borderline perfectionist.
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Driving up the side of Vesuvius, through the switchback bends, the houses thinned and gave way to pine forest; then the pine forest thinned and gave way to scrub.
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Familiar bends and twists in the hallway lead her past cubbyholes and labs of other Engletech researchers, including the bemused Thatcher.
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A combination of blind bends, and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.
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I couldn't help thinking of the French expression: "perdre la boussole" ( "perdre" = to lose and "la boussole" = compass) which means: to go round the bends, to go nuts.
The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day
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The Sartorius, crossing the thigh, also bends and turns the hip, pulling it away from the center line.
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As a passionate Vijay bends over to kiss his bride, she pulls away in disgust.
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Don't bring the leg in so far it bends or hunch your shoulders; this stresses the hamstrings and the spine and neck.
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Watch out for sharp bends and adjust your speed accordingly.
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A broken white line meant to divide the street into lanes inexplicably bends, crossing it.
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He modelled the way he bends the ball on Beckham; the same spin and swerve from set pieces.
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This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned - assemble them dry and mark with a pencil.
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It gives me a pointed blink then bends its long, slender neck down and laps up some water with a snaking, scarlet tongue, making delicate ripples in the glassy water.
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At the end of the straight section, the road bends to the right and appears to go down slightly.
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Real driving also requires intense concentration and unexpected physical exertion as the car goes around the bends and over the bumpy surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the road bends sharply to the right, pass through the gate on the left signed Public Bridleway Route Diverted.
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Keep to the lane as it bends left then right and it drops more steeply downhill.
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The fluid and strong dancers do fabulous backbends, and their spines and arms ripple like water.
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Growing from the side of a stump, the stem of the fawn-colored pluteus bends upwards to the light.
Some Summer Days in Iowa
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Because she could not pick up the motorbike after a gravel rasher, and on bends she just did not have the weight to keep the bloody wheels on the tarmac.
Motorcycle Daydream « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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It bends the thumb in towards the base of the index finger.
Muscle Management
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With something of the style of a Japanese buyo dance, Philippa Davies bends the pitch of her alto flute to summon the sound of a shakuhachi and Catrin Finch plucks her harp strings near the soundboard, alluding to the sound of the koto.
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Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves.
Past and Present
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She bends over and kisses him gently there, her tongue gliding softly along.
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_ -- About the middle of the first month of intra-uterine life the prosencephalon bends acutely forward over the end of the notochord and sends out from its base a series of processes, which ultimately blend to form the face (Fig. 231).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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To try to avoid getting the bends, extreme divers spend hours on ascent, sitting at targeted depths for carefully calculated periods of decompression to allow the gases to flush safely from their bodies.
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A quick exit should see the red box runner slip the field around the first two bends to clinch her ninth win from 32 races.
The Sun
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At the end of the straight section, the road bends to the right and appears to go down slightly.
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Soon the track bends to the right as you pass open moorland.
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The road bends as it crosses the bridge, and residents say a high hedge makes visibility particularly poor.
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The bonus is excellent handling and roadholding, with great steering responses and that uncanny ability to make a series of bends seem like a straight road.
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This paper describes the development of high - pressure steel butt welding bends with straight ends.
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Watch out for sharp bends and adjust your speed accordingly.
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Each dancer had to perform splits in all directions, backbends, contortions, or any unique movement in the dancer's repertoire.
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We are taken on a wild ride -- for a ride, we may occasionally feel -- that executes its hairpin bends with breathtaking lurches.
Shadow of the Wind: Summary and book reviews of Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
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There are cases of divers getting the bends as they returned through the Alps after diving the Mediterranean.
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The road then bends to the right, past a farm cottage with a boisterous beck tumbling from the brackened heights behind.
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Elephant seals can dive to depths of almost a mile without getting the bends.
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What was once mostly a two-lane road with more than its fair share of twists and bends will eventually be a four-lane highway with slow bending curves.
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He bends down and tosses a stick to Baxter, who obligingly fetches it and brings it back.
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As captured on video, the riverscape seemed to consist chiefly of slowwater sections winding through gentle bends and interrupted occasionally by riffles.
The Song of The Dodo
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This rod is supple in the tip, but becomes powerful as it bends towards the butt.
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Nitrox and heliox, Gideon knew, were air mixtures intended for use at great depth or during extended dives in order to alleviate the various problems, including the bends, oxygen toxicity, and nitrogen narcosis, that came as the result of gases being compressed—or decompressed—in the human body.
Gideon’s war
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If you feel sluggish or cold back bends will give you energy by stimulating the Kidneys.
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TWO divers had to be winched aboard a helicopter and flown ashore suffering from the bends.
The Sun
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And then, around one of its many bends, the river rapidly emptied into a lake many leagues across and ringed by small hills.
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He bends down slightly, surprising her, and starts humming along in her ear.
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If the artist bends his or her will, at whatever cost, to the illumination of difficult moral, social and psychological problems, this must sooner or later find a deep response in the population.
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Often called the bends, decompression sickness causes nitrogen bubbles in the tissues of a diver's body when he attempts to surface too rapidly.
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Rush bends over and presents his oversized @ss like an Italian Don presenting his ring to a wannabe) * smoochy smoochy smooch smooch*, I don't know what I was saying suh, I stepped on your toes suh and ahs sorry suh .. fnckin 'token idiot ..
CNN Political Ticker
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Our school was situated handily, so as to increase the risk, between two bends in the road.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Hinged between the second and third wheels so it bends at the forefoot like a running shoe, it provides a better push-off than normal skates as well as superfast acceleration.
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This rod is supple in the tip, but becomes powerful as it bends towards the butt.
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In the classroom the teacher is stiff and stern but after class he unbends.
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In the bends, the air embolism is a bubble of nitrogen.
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This time, though, we walked in the other direction, and sat on a bench where the river bends dramatically, before finding its way to the Lock.
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And dreamed of nights when you should sleep with your head upon my breast -- [_Yaouma bends her head_] And now you seek a grave in the slime of the river.
Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
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Compared to Heinz cream of tomato and the moquette benches and U-bends of the British railway carriage, these initial experiences implied an inferior way of life.
So close, yet so far away – Europe is still something of a mystery to many of us | Ian Jack
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The rise in altitude from 6,000 ft to double that was reached via heartstoppingly steep gradients and hairpin bends.
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Winding roads, with nail-biting hairpin bends, offer views over steep wooded slopes and the jagged profile of the Alpi Apuane mountain range, where chestnut trees, olive groves and tall cypresses proliferate.
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If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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Valleys aggraded with fine waste form well-nigh level plains over which streams wind from side to side of a direct course in symmetric bends known as meanders, from the name of a winding river of Asia Minor.
The Elements of Geology
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Familiar bends and twists in the hallway lead her past cubbyholes and labs of other researchers.
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This swivels the headlamp beam on cornering so throwing light into dark bends.
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The road bends sharply to the left.
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Thin, light soft bouncy sole bends very easily, because this takes a route, will freely easily.
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Instead, stiff legged, he merely bends at the waist like a man twice his 37 years.
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I discovered that my backbends were different all the time and that was interesting to me.
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The path joins a clear track after a while, which you follow for a short distance then where this track bends away to the left continue straight on alongside the perimeter fence.
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There were points when taking bends at higher speeds that it almost felt out of control.
The Sun
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As sheet bends are used to attach two lines of differing diameter, a double sheet bend is used for two lines of radically differing diameter, with the smaller performing the double wrap around the larger.
Knot Reference Wallet Card Keeps Your Knot Knowledge Fresh | Lifehacker Australia
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The vastus medialis obliquus (VMO), a teardroplike muscle on the inside of your thigh, works together with the flashier VL (vastus lateralis muscle) on the outside to hold the patella in place as the joint bends, so I take advantage of the thigh adduction and abduction machines, and my physical therapist showed me how to set the hip machine for a slow, careful quad workout.
Knee Change
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At several bends in the road, hungry dogs run up to the bus, yapping loudly.
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A key feature of the work will involve putting actual bends back into the river, which many years ago was previously straightened.
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There were points when taking bends at higher speeds that it almost felt out of control.
The Sun
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Sit down a little so the right knee bends more.
The Sun
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Sit down a little so the right knee bends more.
The Sun
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There are straight stretches and sharp bends and that is why there are so many fatalities on that road.
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Perhaps Acrobatic Dancing is the most difficult of all the types to master -- that is, it most certainly requires a degree of strength that the other dances do not demand; sufficient strength in the arms to support the weight of the body in the hand-stand and the cartwheel, flexibility of the muscles in order to do the "limbers" and back-bends.
The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
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For this is how the world bends, with neither a bang nor a whimper.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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The slow water on the far side of stream bends is a magnet for ducks, but these hard turns present a challenge for gunners faced with difficult shooting angles and a tipsy seat.
Down the River for Ducks
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Halfway home, the film bends to formula and delves into melodrama as it tones down the comedy.
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For convenience in handling rope and learning the various knots, ties, and bends, we use the terms "standing part," "bight," and "end" (Fig. 3).
Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise
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There, a waterfall gurgled and bubbled happily down to a rushing stream, seemingly enlaced with bits of gold, that in turn flowed around bends all the way out of the cave.
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I love the way the penny whistler bends the note, and his vibrato is devastating.
The Lonesome Boatman | clusterflock
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Watch out for sharp bends and adjust your speed accordingly.
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The moment seems endless as he bends across Tylicz to peer into their faces.
SEA MUSIC
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It wooshed past the house when most things go by at a snail's pace because the visibility around the blind bends is nil and there is nowhere to go but head on.
A strange day
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A diver was treated in the decompression chamber after surfacing on Sunday afternoon with symptoms of the bends.
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He bends to the right to reach for the water glass on his night stand and lets out a muted whine of terror.
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It had hairpin bends and was in the blaze of the midday sun - the full monty as far as mountains go.
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Azure or blue, the colour of the fesse, is said to be in heraldry the symbol of a godly disposition, and of a heavenly mind; gules, or red, the colour of the bends or bendlets, is in heraldry the symbol of strength and courage; and argent, or silver, the metal of the plates, the symbol of innocency, and love.
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If you feel sluggish or cold backbends will give you energy by stimulating the kidneys.
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Wire mesh lends itself to gentle curves and sharp bends, so you can use it to construct fences in any configuration you like.
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In certain parts, the water was flowing extremely fast and there are lots of twists and bends.
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He bends to show the leaf of a verbascum.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ability to collapse their lung air-sacs with increasing depth is probably the dolphin's major protection against the bends.
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We started the session with a few knee bends to warm up.
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Pyrometric Cones: A pyrometric cone is made of a ceramic material that bends and deforms at a predetermined temperature.
Chapter 9
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‘I had just started the ascent of Angliru and was taking one of the tight bends when my wheel just skidded out from under me,’ he recalled.
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Offers included turning one into a restaurant and another into a hyperbaric chamber - to help scuba divers suffering from the bends.
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The tight, banked bends on indoor tracks mean a tall athlete with a long stride length will struggle in the 200m and 400m.
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In 1558 he was granted a canonry in the collegiate church of Tournai and at the time of his death he held numerous prebends.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Gaulier bends her at the waist, her arms pinioned behind her, and karate-chops her back.
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Round blind bends where you could not possibly see if the road ahead was blocked.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite the opposite, in fact, as it responded immediately when it came to powering out of the twists and bends of the lanes of the Cartmel Peninsular.
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Paly of six on a bend three mullets (Elton) impaling a fish, and in the dexter chief point an annulet between two bends wavy.
Old French Romances
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In the classroom the teacher is stiff and stern but after class he unbends.
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The stream bends to the west.
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And then you're in the same problem that divers have when they come up from a great depth, the problem of nitrogen bends, decompression sickness.
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The man easily bends it, looks confused, and a flustered Geller quickly snatches the key back from him.
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The connection between dehydration and the bends is now quite clear.
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The loops, bends and corkscrews, always performed in perfect formation, are a spectacular sight.
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The bends, or barotrauma, comes from ascending too quickly for your body to adjust to the change in pressure.
In Pictures: The Most Dangerous Sports
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The other day I was about three-quarters of the way through my yoga practice when it came to the point in the middle of backbends where you do a handstand and balance by yourself for twelve breaths.
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They were placed on high ground and promontories to be seen from afar, sometimes to mark shallows, rapids or bends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
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That package includes some road markings, including chevrons and red surfacing, more road signs and extra visibility on ‘wider’ bends.
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The disease suffered by divers known as the bends (decompression sickness) is an example of the same phenomenon.
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He looked back, then surged ahead and sprinted up the 21 hairpin bends to the summit, claiming his first stage victory and beating Ullrich by a whopping 1 minute, 59 seconds.
USATODAY.com - Armstrong completes third straight win
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In another solo he has a couple of suddenly huge, easy backbends that come out of nowhere and vanish into nothing.
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Each milieu affects the space, bends it, inflects it, shapes it.
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This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned - assemble them dry and mark with a pencil.
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This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned - assemble them dry and mark with a pencil.
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I find myself staring at my father's back as he bends over and peers lengthily into the dangerously overstuffed interior of the fridge.
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The experiments at the university's Diving Physiology laboratory concerned an illness known as decompression sickness, or "the bends.
U Of Wisconsin Faces Animal Cruelty Charges In Sheep Deaths
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(Speaker bends over and reveals a butt that would sexually enrage a mandrill)
Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
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Instead, stiff legged, he merely bends at the waist like a man twice his 37 years.
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Furthermore, although the line is a circle, there are bends in either direction throughout its course so the underlying assumption is clearly wrong.
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Ascot is a right-handed, wide track, 1miles 6furlongs round, with sweeping bends and a short home straight (less than three furlongs).
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The child bends forward at the waist until the spine becomes parallel to the horizontal plane, while holding palms together with arms extended.
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In the shot where The Batman makes his appearance, his gloved hand reaches in to grab a nare-do-well's firearm and then Batman simply bends the barrel...and not just a little bit, either.
VOTD: Batman is Confused - Plot Holes of The Dark Knight | /Film
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I also have some moulded national-to-IEC plugs that will fit the socket on my modified power board, but these have right-angle bends that make them generally useless in most hotel rooms where the power point is just above the benchtop or floor.
When Your Universal Adaptor Doesn’t Fit | Lifehacker Australia
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All artists are androgynous; in Chopin the feminine often prevails, but it must be noted that this quality is a distinguishing sign of masculine lyric genius, for when he unbends, coquets and makes graceful confessions or whimpers in lyric loveliness at fate, then his mother's sex peeps out, a picture of the capricious, beautiful tyrannical Polish woman.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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The twist is that the handle bends round underneath to form a coaster to collect any drips.
Times, Sunday Times
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One way to find unmarked bends is to put your boat over a creek channel where it enters the lake and follow it downstream, fishing as you go.
Bass in the Bends
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I have found that the best poses for sacroiliac pain are twists and asymmetrical forward bends, both of which help to diminish the torque through the joint.
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Claiming legitimate control of prebends in an area is enabled by the political currency of concepts such as autochtony and allogeny.
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The descent is much steeper at only 20 km, with some fast bends at the top changing to tight hairpins at the bottom.
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In the 70°C samples, semicircles and sinusoidal bends are observed.
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The road bends here then straightens out.
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Over the course of the next hour he watched them disappear and reemerge, light and fleet on the straight-aways, plodding and stealthy on the sharp bends and acclivities.
Heaven Lake
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Sit down a little so the right knee bends more.
The Sun
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If you take a stronger gravity source the curve becomes greater until at some point you get a slingshot effect, where the moving object approaches, bends round the planet and shoots off into space again.
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Grinning, Jem bends down and chucks Chelsea under her chin.
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You still get torque steer and the wheel doesn't half feel weird in the bends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Goodwood is a right-handed course which has a straight section of six furlongs with a loop attached by two bends for longer races.
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It is dark and unlit with several bends and there are no obstacles or barriers at the side of the road to help you if you get into difficulties.
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The river deposits rich soil at its bends.
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Many prebends and bishoprics were preserved for them; and even at this day the Turkish sultan makes canons and bishops, without the pope having ever made an imam or a mollah.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But now, said the paper, as Clay moved once again amidst his countrymen, “touched by affliction, they accompany him whithersoever he bends his steps, deepened by the reverence which a free people can only accord to the most worthy and most honored of public men.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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The steering is agile and responsive and it takes tight bends in its stride.
The Sun
