Sentence examples for bending from inspiring English sources

The word 'bending' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is the present participle form of the verb 'bend' which means to curve or become distorted under pressure. Example: The branch was bending under the weight of the snow.

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bending

noun

A motion or action that bends.

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Based on the true story of the wrongful conviction of black boxer Rubin Carter, the film has been criticised for bending the facts, which may have damaged its chances, but its star, Denzel Washington, appears in the best actor category.

Many of those allies have Obama's ear, and they are bending it in favor of Summers.

There was no bending of the knee or dipping of the head – nothing that might suggest an unequal relationship between the two countries.

Ten minutes from time, he got his team's third goal, showing his technique by bending a shot with the outside of his foot round the Argentine goalkeeper, Carrizo.

Lewis Hilsenteger from Unbox Therapy, he of bending iPhone 6 Plus fame, claims to have sourced two Ion-X screens from the Apple Watch Sport for testing and found that neither a metal implement such as a key or knife nor steel wool could scratch the screen.

From not listening to staff and bending to whims of bigger jellies that live in the even darker ocean depths, to stubbornly maintaining the status quo, these poor invertebrates cannot help trying to be everything to everyone (however obvious it is that this just won't work).

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Whether you're here, or in the deep space of EveOnline, or among the low-life in Grand Theft Auto V, the economics of computer games nearly always resemble early capitalism: trade, conquest and ruthless rule-bending are the sources of wealth; actual human labour and ingenuity almost never.

They licensed the rule-bending that miscarried justice in the 80s, for the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four.

It is a mighty paradox, the mind-bending artistic equivalent of quantum physics.

How many times can Elizabeth Warren say she is not running for president in one grammar-bending minute?

Japan's mind-bending macroeconomics has also prompted some mould-breaking ideas.

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