The phrase "avoid bending" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to instruct someone to refrain from bending something, often related to physical objects or actions.
Example: "To maintain the integrity of the document, please avoid bending it during transport."
Alternatives: "refrain from bending" or "steer clear of bending".
Using her toes, she pried off her sneakers without bothering to unlace them perhaps to avoid bending over beneath his eyes and tossed them onto the closet floor.
Plugs - Avoid placing a bed and/or other furnishing near outlets and plugs to avoid bending or breaking the plug or the outlet wiring.
Crouch low into the knees (however, avoid bending too low and putting stress on the knee) and Groucho-walk up the hill backward.
Using her toes, she pried off her sneakers without bothering to unlace them — perhaps to avoid bending over beneath his eyes — and tossed them onto the closet floor.
A "picker-upper" device helps them avoid bending too low, and a key turner gives them leverage to open their door.
Accordingly, system dynamic analyses associated with hydrodynamic load should be performed in the frequency domain in order to avoid bending modes of tower from the operation frequency ranges.
Pipes and surfaces should be correctly sloped down, avoiding bending the pipes which could form a siphon.
A carbon/epoxy cross-ply laminated beam was selected to avoid bending-torsion coupling.
For green coffee, pneumatic conveying has to be applied carefully by avoiding bends in pipework and high velocities, because this will cause coffee breakages.
More firmly than before, western governments reckon that diplomatic exchanges with Russia are likelier to bear fruit if NATO holds its ground and avoids bending too far in order make its peace proposals palatable to the Kremlin.
The second thinnest saw blade was used to create the transverse sections in order to avoid cut bending.
