How to Use bend in a Sentence

bend

1 of 2 verb

• The trees were bending in the wind.
• He bent back to look up at the ceiling.
• He bent the bow and shot an arrow from it.
• The branch will bend before it breaks.
• She bent down to pick up a piece of paper and then she straightened up again.
• His glasses got bent when he dropped them.
• The canyon sides were steep and sandy; the sun was hot and the wind was bending the tall conifers.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• Stay in the stretch, side bending with your pelvis tucked, for three to five breaths.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Years ago, the clip used for the line tie would sometimes bend out on large fish.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
• Keep your left knee bent over your hip and your left arm straight up.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 11 Sep. 2023
• Then, bend your front knee while keeping the back leg straight.
  — Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 28 July 2023
• Lie down on the floor and bend your knees at a 90-degree angle, feet flat on the ground.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023
• Note that since the seat is low to the ground, caregivers will have to bend over quite a bit to get the baby in and out.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• By squeezing the handles on the device, the metal bed bends and the part pops off.
  — Michael Molitch-Hou, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• With a knife that has a very fine edge, too much wear and tear can cause the steel to ripple or bend.
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• This happened and then there was this, and the time can’t bend, and the skyscrapers aren’t going to flip over.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2023
• Some callers like to slightly bend the frame of their call for a better fit.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
• Biden then bent to hug Kathy Lebel, owner of the bar where eight people died in the Oct. 25 massacre.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• For the move of the police memorial, Noseda and his crew bent to their work.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2023
• Try to keep both legs straight (if this is too difficult, try just bending the leg on the floor).
  — Women's Health, 11 July 2023
• Lie on your back, bend your knees toward your chest, and support your feet with your hands.
  — Dulce Moncada, Glamour, 28 Sep. 2023
• Waits rips a hunk of tire ad off the back page, works it into a wad, bends down and wedges the wobbly leg of his table.
  — Bart Bull, Spin, 8 Aug. 2023
• Light bends across the surface to conjure chimeric cities that hover at the horizon.
  — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
• The other two look as if their owners are in pain, with wrists bent back, fingers clenched.
  — Grace Cote, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• To fold, press on the top or the sides of the tent to bend the poles into a circular shape, resulting in a flattened tent.
  — Tanya Edwards, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
• This is not the duo’s first time bending T leadership’s ears.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• The back of the eye can become flattened, and the nerves that carry visual information from the eye to the brain swell and bend.
  — Rachael Seidler, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• For rainbows to form, the shape of the water droplets has to be very close to a sphere for all of them to bend and reflect the colors in harmony.
  — Partha Chowdhury, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2023
• Blue Ivy bends over her shoulder to help out, and Rumi, sitting on Bey’s lap, does as well.
  — Condé Nast, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2023
• Other photos show new big brother Olivier bending down to kiss Henri on the head as she's tucked away in her basket.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024

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bend

2 of 2 noun

• Those that do dive down to the deep gates can get the bends and die.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• To make a right-angle bend, use the width of the anvil's face.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• The hook eye gets poked through the top of the tube’s head and the hook bend gets hidden in the skirt.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Keep a soft bend in right knee and inhale through the nose.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 21 June 2023
• Cover the first two-thirds of the shank with thread from the hook eye toward the bend.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
• Pull one knee up to where there is a 90 degree bend in both the knee and the hip.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Steelhead and salmon will put a sharp bend in a heavy rod.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2023
• For styling, use a 1 & 1/4-inch curling iron at the roots and mid shaft to give it a bend and leave the ends straight.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2023
• About 1,000 yards down the trail, in a bend of the river, is a rope swing on the opposite bank.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 7 July 2022
• Next, with the washer clamped in a vise, put a 90-degree bend in the washer.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• How to Do It: Start with both knees and hips in a 90 degree bend— one in front and one in back.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• Hinging at the hips, with a slight knee bend, brace your core, push through the glutes, and pull the handles down.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
• Then a half-mile vista of the Kern splashing straight toward us from around a bend.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Clay and Joyce continued up the trail around the next bend, stopped, and waited.
  — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• With a slight bend in your knees and a flat back, hinge at hips and swing the kettlebell back through legs.
  — Jordan Galloway, Women's Health, 25 July 2023
• And the distinct sound of the Pilchuck at this bend in its course was instrumental to the founding of the shrine.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2023
• Keep back flat, abs engaged, and a slight bend in elbows.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
• Epperson agrees and says that a bouncy blowout with some bends is the way to go.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 30 June 2023
• Keep a slight bend in the knees while standing in that position.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• This is where the terror-edge of being lost bends to leisurely joy.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Even the smallest twist or bend can send pain shooting from your back down to your legs.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• One night, three years ago, while snaking through the dark bends of Topanga Canyon, Steve Lacy came face to face with death.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• Police noticed a small bend in the metal of the woman’s front door.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
• On a small lake or pond, this might be close to a spillway; on a stream this might be a slow inside bend.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2023
• In the Rod Marinelli years, this was a no-risk bend-don’t-break approach that led to few takeaways.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2021
• Phillips plays too high and needs to get more knee bend as well as improve hand placement.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Here's how: Stand with your feet hip-distance apart with a slight bend in your knees and a barbell placed in front of you.
  — Tiffany Ayuda, Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• For The Times) In the years since, the bend toward buttons has become a small branch of textile science.
  — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• One bend features 170-year-old dwellings acquired from former cotton plantations nearby, a whipping post, and replicas of a rail car and a holding pen.
  — Donovan X. Ramsey, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
• Einstein and others knew that if the theory was correct, and the fabric of reality is bending around large objects, then light itself would have to follow that bend.
  — Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024