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How to use bent in a sentence

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Nose bent impossibly over a weather-beaten face, he looks much older than his 46 years.
The display can be flexed in all directions and bent to form a curve with a radius of curvature of less than 20 cm, Tosh says.
His obsessive imagining of a lost civilization seems to have joyfully regressed to the thrill-seeking bent of an adolescent model-builder.
Trailers are toppled, roads are washed out and equipment is bent and broken.
We have bent a number of bows using a steam box and a jig with a block and tackle and pulleys to bend them around a form.
He bent over to grab the brown metal wastebasket and brandish it like a shield, making her laugh.
She bent slightly to look under his grimy hat to check if he was joshing with her.
Christopher also bent down to the parcel, concealing his and her actions with a turned back and diminished movements.
The car was still at the scene, all bent up because the paramedics had to use the Jaws of Life to get my father out.
Catering to such people might even be considered an abdication of responsibility for a program director bent on public service.
His head bent in deep thought, he bit his lip in uncertainty while lowering his quill to the parchment.
The stereo was gone, the front door was bent open with a jimmy, and all my cds had been taken.
He cocked up a questioning eyebrow as he bent down lower to assess the noise.
It was set into the mountain side, and trees bent over it, so that it's cove would be hidden by low hanging branches and leaves.
Her frame was small, her back was bent, and her skin was weathered, but her vigorous soul persevered.
In the early years, modernism had a kind of progressive, even socialist bent to it.
Those with a slightly sleazier bent have dredged up reports of his weight gain, substance abuse, and arrest.
I never do burns for heavy compound lifts, such as squats or bent rows.
One detainee was bent over for a rectal feeding that involved Ensure, the protein shake.
Bent wood, rattan, wrought iron, or brass give you the best eye appeal in a floor-standing coat rack.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The color had left his face, and ages seemed to bestride his bent shoulders.
He bent his head forward challengingly, to meet the glare of his accuser's eyes.
Graceful and polite as all the voyageurs were, Charle' charette was the prince of them with his big sweet presence as he bent.
Here and there the airway was lofty enough to allow us to walk with bent heads and rounded shoulders.
Alcyone never raised her head, but bent over her child, whom she carried in her arms.
So Alden bent his steps to the house of the Episcopal minister at Charlottesville.
The Algonkian rocks of the Grand Canyon region were bent and broken into mountains at an early date.
The cavaliers then bent to the left, entering a broad path lined with aloes.
With a chuckle he ambled off to his wife, to be sent to some one else, and Drake bent to Nell.
In amniotic animals the base of the skull appears bent in on the abdominal side, so that the head sinks upon the breast.
Some read the genderless world as androcentric, because the generic human being it affirmed had a rather masculine bent.
But she bent over him till her face was anigh his, and he lifted up his face and kissed her mouth.
The only voices now were the murmured words of Mansur and anis as they bent over Qutuz's body.
But, once again in the machine, he bent over and put his cheek against hers.
When they left the chapel, Newbury, pale and smiling, bent over her appealingly.
Feeling very foolish, but unable to refuse for some mysterious reason, Asha bent and picked up the child.
But as Philothea bent over him, she perceived a faint pulsation of the heart.
I bent on another line and then dipped up some water in the bailer to throw upon the smoking gunwale.
He had taken off his hat, and, bareheaded, he bent and looked questioningly into her eyes.
In the Cervidae and Giraffidae the face is not bent down on the basicranial axis as it is in the Bovidae.
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