Sentence examples for bent that it from inspiring English sources

And the honours system is so bent that it makes a game of find-the-lady in Oxford Street look like a church tombola.

The A.V. Club writer Sean O'Neal, a vocal critic of Beck, said mocking Beck is an easy task, but the episode "handled it with just enough of the show's usual surrealist bent that it was never wholly predictable".

Twitter has just made one of these concessions; perhaps they think of themselves as the willow, bending that it might not break.

"If we want to bend that cost curve down, it's through the public option that we're going to do it," she said.

Greece might be bending that way too.

I don't bend that way anymore".

Because the signal is so simple, it can't be fundamentally directional without some careful tweaking — meaning the system could only tell that a piece is bending, not that it's bending to the right or left.

Here are two long nails partially hammered into a block of wood, one bent so that it is in tentative dialogue with the other.

The DNA needs to be sharply bent so that it can be tightly wrapped around the core proteins.

We gave her a piece of metal that was bent so it was too short.

He knew that the spire's weight caused its supporting pillars visibly to bend, and that it might well have eventually collapsed under its own mass if Sir Christopher Wren had not added reinforcing beams in the seventeenth century," writes Mullan.