How to Use bendy in a Sentence
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Soft and bendy and fresh in the right places, a little char in the right places.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 1 Oct. 2019
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Top picks include this bendy, palm-size Poco, which curves to hit the G-spot.
—Malia Griggs, SELF, 1 Sep. 2023
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Jumping from the far end of the branch would reduce the gap, but the bendy tip would be less stable.
—Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
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Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
—Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 May 2017
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It’s Reed Richards, bendy leader of the Fantastic Four!
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
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Millions have the same 'bendy body' disease as my daughter.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
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The latest trend is flip phones with a far more limited display on the front and a super-tall, bendy screen on the inside.
—David Goldman, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
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The researchers used machine learning to make a map of those bendy reflections.
—Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
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The cookies were more bendy than chewy, an unpleasant hard-but-soft texture.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
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The kids' menu is serviceable, though drinks (with a bendy straw and lidded plastic cup), are not included in the $4-$5 price.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
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He’s not a super flexible, bendy edge rusher like Von Miller or even a Robert Quinn.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
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With hinges and moving parts, the surface under the display might have some gaps in it, especially at the bendy parts.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
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In an endoscopy, the doctor uses a narrow, bendy tube with a lighted camera on the tip to explore your colon.
—Rebecca Joy Stanborough, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
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And now that weird kind of muscle has inspired a bendy inflatable robot.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
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Outsize and awkward, its bendy waist looking like a tattered accordion between cars, the bus prowled one of the city’s widest streets.
—Annalee Newitz, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
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Many inventions are intended to solve problems–like the bendy straw.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
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One day, graphene might enable all sorts of cool gadgets -- from bendy phones to magazines that connect to the Internet.
—Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018
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A great base, like bendy waves (whether just-rolled-out-of-bed natural or simulated), makes a style that much cooler.
—Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2017
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Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
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The bendier ones like lead or aluminum are definitely not stretchy.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2019
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The frames are on the petite side, so bigger kids may need to size up, but the bendy arms help compensate, splaying out slightly if necessary.
—Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2023
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These weirdly bendy legs would essentially be a second pair of arms for the robot to use in guiding itself around the spaces.
—Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
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While Foxx shoots up bloodsuckers exploding out of the drywall, Adkins stakes vamps in the kitchen, beheads them with a sword, and fences with a bendy lady who wields knives with her feet.
—Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
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To produce ground vanilla, the beans are dried to remove the moisture that gives them their flexible, bendy texture, then ground into a fine powder.
—Jane Black, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
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My biggest complaint is with the precariously thin and bendy neck, which could be improved.
—Medea Giordano, Wired, 13 July 2022
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These two are tall, bendy white characters with stringy green hair and googly Pac-Man eyes (the way Max Fleischer used to draw them, with a wedge missing), who want be famous, but can’t be bothered to work for it.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
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At its top the escalator disappears into an enormous paper bag, which contains a bendy straw, a bow tie, a pint of milk, and huge kernels of popcorn.
—Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
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For one, although the microprocessor is built on a substrate of flexible plastic, it was tested on a flat--not bendy--surface.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2021
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But black holes take their cues from general relativity, the theory that space and time form a bendy fabric and gravity is the fabric’s curves.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
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Earlier this year, Google optimized dozens of its native apps (most of which run on all Android devices) to support foldables’ larger screens, like the one on its bendy Pixel Fold.
—WIRED, 24 July 2023
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