Sentence examples for bend from inspiring English sources
The word "bend" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it as a verb to describe when something is curved or when it changes direction. For example, "The river bends around the town.".
Orzag says there's not much chance the Republicans in the House will bend at all.
A momentary fondu, a "melting" bend of the supporting knee (as opposed to fondue, a melting of Gruyère cheese) and she's into the next step.
"It is clear that the current BSA leadership will bend with the winds of popular culture, and the whims of liberal special interest groups," said Perkins.
He suffers from Dupuytren's contracture, a condition that causes some of his fingers to bend in towards the palm, which can make shaking hands with fans difficult.
If you bend your head once, you will bend it for ever.
And because people realised she was not going to bend, they began to adjust.
We followed the Nile on her 1,000-mile "s" bend across the Nubian desert, visiting isolated Meroitic pyramids and temples, where we were the only tourists; traversed hundreds of kilometres of wild desert; clambered on the abandoned Nile river cruisers at Atbara.
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