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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are bent over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a physical position where someone is leaning forward, typically at the waist.
Example: "The workers are bent over their desks, focused on completing the project before the deadline."
Alternatives: "are hunched over" or "are leaning forward".
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The plane trees are bent over like old ladies.
There are ensembles in which three things are going on among the performers, but a dominant image is the way most of them are bent over, their heads and torsos addressing the floor while their feet pound out rhythms.
Buildings are bent over like a concertina or plonked down on the beach, stairways lead off into the sky, high-rise apartments have grown bull horns, and houses are completely tipped over with roofs sitting at ground level.
The cap cuticle ranges in cellular form from a cutis (in which the hyphae are bent over, running parallel to the cap surface) to a trichoderm (with hyphae emerging roughly parallel, like hairs, perpendicular to the cap surface); the hyphae comprising the cuticle are cylindrical, and measure 2.0 9.0 μm wide with a club-shaped tip up to 11 μm wide.
Nearby, women are bent over looms making traditional Berber rugs.
Traffic lights are bent over and twisted like old olive trees.
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"We are bending over backward to be reasonable to everybody," he said.
Dangerous because they are bending over backward to call a fashion show serious art.
"Suddenly, the T.S.A. people are bending over backward to make something happen," he said.
They were bent over, looking at something on the ground.
One was bent over like a question mark.
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