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Discover LudwigThe phrase "is bent over" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is leaning or stooping down from the waist. For example: "John is bent over, carefully examining the engine of his car."
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She is bent over, facing away from the camera.
Now 70, my back is bent over, spine is an S shape & no longer supports me.
Possibly the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse who is bent over backward, like a tango dancer, has suggested an eruption of lust.
In the next scene, the young man is bent over again — but this time in prayer, on a pretty Oriental rug.
In the piece, Bliven acknowledges the legend that has sprung up around V-J Day, attributing it partly to Eisenstaedt's photo of the "nurse who is bent over backward, like a tango dancer," suggesting "an eruption of lust": I was nineteen that summer, fresh out of college, and was working as an editorial assistant at The New Republic, then on East Forty-ninth Street.
She is bent over, untying a bedroll at her feet.
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"The court is bending over backward, perhaps even a little too far.
They were bent over, looking at something on the ground.
The plane trees are bent over like old ladies.
One was bent over like a question mark.
When I returned to the table, Ginny and her mother were bent over laughing.
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