Sentence examples for are bent to from inspiring English sources

Lazarus knows about turning cool technology into commercial products: ACX used piezoelectric solids, which generate electricity when they are bent, to produce vibration dampers in K2 skis.

When applying impact load, thin-walled aluminum tubes are cut using multiple-blade cutting tools in a controlled mode from multiple points simultaneously and the petals created during processing are bent to absorb more energy.

Sit on the ball and see if your hips and knees are bent to 90 degrees, with your thighs parallel to the floor.

One woman's palms are showing, the other's fingers are bent to show her dark fingernail polish.

For soil layering, lower stems are bent to the ground and covered with moist soil of good quality.

In soil layering, the shoots, or lower branches of the parent plant, are bent to the ground and covered with moist soil of good quality.

Imagine what will happen when this is bent to political ends.

Statistics are supposed to have a plastic quality that allows them to be bent to prove any argument.

"What I am worried about is a justice system that can be bent to service the rich," the columnist Richard Godwin wrote in The Evening Standard.

Florent Grelier, a clean vehicles engineer at the Transport and Environment (T&E) campaign group, told the Guardian he feared that EU attempts to improve air quality were being "bent to the will of the automotive industry".

The first person you meet in the book is Fat Curt, a veteran of the corner, with "needle-scarred hands", arms like "swollen leather" and "bloated legs" who is "bent to this ancient business of survival".