Sentence examples for back bent from inspiring English sources
Ruben Bennett, his back bent and his fingers gnarled from a lifetime of labor, has lived all of his 88 years here.
She sat down in her underwear on the padded chest at the foot of the bed, hugging her arms around herself, her long back bent.
Sometime around five in the morning, Sanders appeared before a crowd there, having flown overnight from Iowa, and stood on a flatbed truck, his back bent like a revivalist's.
If he sold enough watermelons, the old man must have thought, his back bent in the gauzy pre-dawn darkness, no child of his would ever be treated like one.
With his back bent against the biting cold, Mr. Anton stood on the sidewalk, talking about the Lowell National Historical Park, which was signed into Federal law in 1978, thanks to Mr. Tsongas's efforts.
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo .— Ruben Bennett, his back bent and his fingers gnarled from a lifetime of labor, has lived all of his 88 years on an expanse of rich farmland here, just below where the Ohio River pours into the Mississippi.
I remember so well certain of her descriptions: Suzanne Farrell left the stage in her farewell performance with "finally and unforgettably, the back-bent exit into the wings"; Tanaquil le Clercq, paralyzed by polio in her prime, "met Death at the ball and died in the frenzy of the Waltz".
Effects that have been electrifying in the past — sudden off-balance pivots on the spot where she then returns to a point of focus as if to a psychological fixation or freezes in powerfully back-bent positions — still occur brilliantly, but like passing moments amid a larger and consuming thought.
She nodded to the crowd and took a few glances at the walls, which were crammed with photographs of jazz icons who had played there: Sonny Rollins cradling a tenor saxophone, Dexter Gordon gazing through a cloud of cigarette smoke, Charlie Haden plucking a bass with back-bent intensity.
His back was bent, and he was carrying a photograph of his son, who had been killed on June 3rd.
And although when she stands up her back is bent, she holds her daughter with great tenderness.
