Sentence examples for bent aside from inspiring English sources

The American anti-terror bent aside, such a mass shooting in a community predominantly of color would never have raised 70 million dollars.

The smallest player in the league has been its biggest loser and, Bent aside, Eriksson need not feel too guilty.

I. Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction.

to bend from the straight path; to turn aside or away (freq. and class.).

The Franciscan pointed out that the door to the church in the square was so short that one had to stoop to enter, which is as it should be, Archbishop Egan said, because Jesus bent low -- setting aside his divinity and suffering the humiliation of death on the cross -- to buy salvation for humanity.

Another vet approached him, moved his walker aside, bent down so his face was right in front of the man's and almost yelling, asked his name.

("Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on," with hilding meaning "bent downward, twisted waywardly aside"). But rode in on suggests a startling entrance.

The doctor stepped aside, and I bent down over the microscope.

Some hairy, on-bend overtaking aside, the going was good and the landscape was as soothing on the eyes as the Black Sea, now 100 miles or so away.

The craps box was cast aside, and the roofers bent to their drinks.

Witness Artyom Zhilenkov, 30, who survived the blast, told the Guardian: "There was a massive boom and then a wave of heat and pressure that swept along the floor, bent my legs and flung me aside.