Sentence examples for have been bent from inspiring English sources

He shakes it until your ideas about what happiness and normality are have been bent, scattered and radically realigned.

The material is actually painted bronze casts of sticks that have been bent, cut and carefully welded together.

While Gates may not actually have been bent, it's worth noting that his squad was still riven with bullies.

Rules have been bent or broken: JPMorgan breached the 10% market-share ceiling for deposits when it took over Washington Mutual, for instance.

Unions consider themselves a legal and legitimate opposition to fiscally conservative governments that have been bent on privatizing industries and holding down labor spending.

Noncommital on his own future – "I will wait to see what Portsmouth do, but not for long" – he suggested rules have been bent before for deserving cases.

Colin was new at the club; I should have been bending over backwards for him.

"The owners, the players and the commissioner have been bending our game to their own greedy interests for decades.

I have been bending over backward here to permit the reported usage to determine the hot modifier's primary meaning.

And yet, theatre practitioners have been bending space-time for many centuries without anyone batting an eyelid.

"If the United States was here, at a high level with the Secretary of State, people would have been bending over backwards trying to accommodate them," he said.