Sentence examples for bent beneath from inspiring English sources

Power!" The barbell bent beneath its load, and Shaw's body began to oscillate like a tuning fork.

Many of them work in the squat semi-circular greenhouses of Almeria, their backs bent beneath the plastic roofs, inhaling insecticide.

They point to quaint hillside villages and farmers ploughing with oxen, they wave at children in ragged clothes, and photograph women bent beneath bundles of firewood.

When Martinez tossed a 1-2 curveball that bent beneath Matsui's knees, Matsui hammered it over the right-field fence to break the 1-1 tie.

From Grampop — who had a quaint, tentative gesture of lifting his thin-skinned hand as if to bestow a blessing or to ask for a halt from the powers that be — he had inherited longevity, and from Granny a country toughness, a wiry fibre that had only slowly bent beneath age and disease.

Not incidentally, Lucas was befriended there by photographer Diane Arbus, who talked her way into the homes of his colleagues and shot what would later become iconic photos of, among others, Andy Potato Chips with two other midgets in his Uptown living room and Eddie Carmel bent beneath the ceiling of his Bronx apartment, his parents looking like frightened Lilliputians beside him.

Early on, one of the women opened her mouth wide, in a silent scream, and we recognized the power of that roar when the others were blown back by it, their bodies bending beneath it.

"The appearance of the marching columns was novel and amusing," recalled Jackson's youthful staff officer Henry Kyd Douglas".Here one fellow was bending beneath the weight of a score of boxes of cigars, smoking and joking as he went, another with as many boxes of canned fruits, another with coffee enough for a winter's encampment, or perhaps with a long string of shoes around his neck, like beads".

In doing so, his heavily taped right leg bends beneath him.

'Tis for you that Neptune pastures in the sea-weed meadows of the Ionian main green sea-horses who can fly o'er the surface of the blue waters with so light a step that their hoofs are unflecked with foam, and course o'er fields of corn so delicately that the ears do not bend beneath their weight.

Make sure your wrist is straight, so your hand does not bend beneath the club, and put your left thumb straight into the groove of your right hand.