Sentence examples for as a bent from inspiring English sources
His disappointment, as well as a bent toward iconoclasm, pushed him into opposition journalism.
On television he appeared memorably as a bent lawyer in GF Newman's Law and Order series (1978) and in one episode of Fawlty Towers.
We know what Atget looked like only because his distorted reflection occasionally appeared in the Paris shop windows he photographed and because Berenice Abbott took a few portraits of him as a bent old man, months before he died.
There is, at first, an impression of miscellany: the collection includes a section of a rafter from the hospital used during the Valley Forge encampment by Washington, as well as a bent hickory wood chair from the newspaper offices of The Sangamon Journal in Springfield, Ill., a chair in which Lincoln probably had occasion to sit.
The French engineer and physicist Charles-Augustin Coulomb was apparently the first to relate the theory of a beam as a bent elastic line to stress and strain in an actual beam, in a way never quite achieved by Bernoulli and, although possibly recognized, never published by Euler.
Happy Valley's long-suffering sergeant was implicated in a murder, helped to track down a serial killer as well as a bent and murderous detective, while also protecting her grandson from the spitting rage of his possessive rapist father, Tommy Lee Royce, and saving her sister from a relapse into addiction.
The bat was morphologically identified as a bent-winged bat (M. schreibersii) and genetically identified by cytochrome b sequencing (11 ).
The choreography for "Loon" (as in "crazy as") was rooted in a bent, broken-lined figure who concealed her face.
Externally, srn mutants exhibit a bent tail as early as 24 hpf, a phenotype that becomes progressively more severe (Fig. 1A), as well as a malformation of the hindbrain, which becomes apparent at 48 hpf (Fig. 1A, brackets).
There are a number of photos in the MacRumors forums, and a French blog, MacBidouille, has also put up a photo of a bent iPhone, as well as the German blog Stadt Bremerhaven.
When Ms. Parkinson pulls back her skirt as she raises a bent knee, it's a show of beauty but also of bone, a gesture that expands in meaning as it recurs through the work.
