chiefly British

Examples of bendy in a Sentence

the kids love to use bendy straws
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These polymers then juiced with other chemicals that give them different properties, to mold them into plastics that are bendy, plastics that are hard, plastics that are resistant to heat and other things. Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025 Their comfortable, bendy ear hooks all but guarantee a secure fit during workouts, even if your workouts involve handstands. Will Palmer, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024 Perhaps the bendy, gravitating fabric of our universe itself emerges from whatever is happening on some lower-dimensional boundary. Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bendy 

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bendy was in 1873

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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bendy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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