Sentence examples for bends from inspiring English sources

As Sir Bradley Wiggins cautiously negotiated the series of tight right-angle bends and speed bumps out of Knowsley safari park on to the Prescot bypass at the start of the time trial, one spectator watched his slow progress and said loudly: "I hope he speeds up a bit".

Indeed, it bends simplistic laws of time and space by swallowing even things that theoretically predate it.

After a few more bends, we emerged into bright sunshine on a sandy arc of a beach, deserted except for the crabs scuttling away in the surf.

The corniche from Sorrento to Salerno is described by Michelin as the finest in Europe, but when we drove along it to our next destination I was too busy negotiating the blind hairpin bends, traffic jams and anarchic roadside parking to appreciate the scenery.

After negotiating his way up and down the steep ascents and descents and round the hairpin bends to the valley, he had already written it off as a place where he might invest in a pub business: "I did Wrynose, I was following a snail and I overtook him and I came down the [Hardknott] pass and thought forget it, I might as well go home, nobody's ever going to come here.

He seriously bends, the better to listen, to every question, and in each case gives a detailed answer on policy.

Again, the river has cut deep into the rock and once more it bends when it meets hard stone.

The view north from Monsal Head - the bluff below which the river bends - combines all the best features of the Derbyshire Peak: limestone farmhouses with fields separated by limestone walls, steep slopes which race up to a skyline and the mottled green of grass, gorse, heather and trees.

Queensland 4-0 NSW Thurston, from the left touchline, puts the right-to-left banana bend on it, but it bends too far.

The road followed the lines of the mountain with short, straight sections, then hairpin bends.

Quoting Martin Luther King, Kirby said that he was hopeful, "the arc of history bends in the direction of equality and liberty".