She bent down for her plate.
When she bent in for a kiss, he gave her his cheek. .
Nearby, on 33rd Street, she bent down to touch, for the first time, the sidewalk where her son's blood had pooled.
When the song called for slinkiness, she bent into undulating curves.
There is another moment when, with even greater dignity, she bends down for a second time, on the ruse of picking up her pencil, and catches his eye under the table to stick out her tongue at him.
I cherish a fading sepia photo of Bea at 14, brushing her teeth at an old well pump in a field: she is a girl at camp with a braid so long it touches the ground as she bends over for water.
I sing with my knees bent, for a feeling of complete balance.
Policy is one thing, but rules can always be bent for convenience and consideration.
Union rules once bent for the company suddenly became strict; old contractor friends turned brusque on the phone.
And because the wires are malleable, they can be bent for access to hard-to-reach areas.
