Sentence examples for bent backwards from inspiring English sources

He explained that he had been involved in an accident, and the finger had been violently bent backwards.

The Arabians wore the zeira, or long cloak, fastened about them with a girdle; and carried at their right side long bows, which when unstrung bent backwards.

For the best part of the past 25 years, the Saudis have bent backwards to make sure politics would be banned from discussions about oil supplies.

As the partners twirl side by side, their fingers bent backwards, shy smiles on their young faces, repeated patterns emerge in their footsteps.

They would be plucked bare, squeezed between bread and pork, tiny, with the useless stumps that used to be their wings looking like broken arms bent backwards.

When you drive from the airport in North Carolina, you can't miss the monumental bronze sculpture of the woman said to be Britain's first black queen, dramatically bent backwards as if blown by a jet engine.

4. Similarly, maximal backward bending was measured by asking subjects to then bend backwards as far as possible for five seconds, keeping their feet stationary.

As half-time approached the American excelled himself, bending backwards to turn away Maynor Figueroa's powered header.

"Why must I bend backwards for them?" Three months later, in December 2000, she became a United States citizen.

Now, they are able to do things like touch their toes comfortably, bend backwards and move in ways that may have felt impossible at one point.

All of the digits were able to hyperextend (bend backwards) until they nearly touched the wrist.