Sentence examples for of a bent from inspiring English sources

She took another deep breath and rubbed her nostrils with the back of a bent finger.

Each time part of a bent strand breaks, a series of these waves ripples down the length of the pasta.

An ABCO Quality Production Company representative said they produced a filament in the form of a bent, elongated violin.

It was the first vacuum tube in which a control grid (in the form of a bent wire) was added between the anode plate and the cathode filament.

A more recent technique makes use of a "bent sub" at the bottom of the drill pipe that is pointed in the desired direction.

All a person can be sure of is that he is aware of something, an appearance of some sort—say of a bent stick in water.

Or the Arc de Triomphe, which is kind of a bent-over tower.

It was only on browsing the catalogue at home that I saw they were spanking the derriere of a bent-double German.

When Papagena, in the guise of a bent-over hag, first appears to Papageno, she sings a Mozart song, "Die Alte," in which an old woman bitterly complains about modern times and says that in her day virtuous girls became brides and things were better.

The study results led to a recommendation of a bent-shaft shovel for the purpose of reducing trunk flexion.

Fig. 2. Results of 3D numerical model of the development of a bent-over plume during the 2011 Shinmoe-dake eruptions; (a d) isosurface of ξ = 0.01 at 120, 240, 360, and 480 s from eruption initiation, respectively, where ξ is the mass fraction of the ejected material; (e f) cross-sectional distribution of ξ; positions of cross-sections are indicated by dotted lines in (a d).