Sentence examples for they were bending from inspiring English sources

Instead, they were bending the knee to a cultural norm of email correspondence whereby friendliness is obligatory.

Some women complain of episodes in which they were bending over to, say, clean a bathtub, and a guest sneaked up and stuck his hand up their skirt.

"The 'work' usually consisted of picking up cans either alongside city roads in Wynne, or actually picking up cans at Boeckmannn's residence, wherein Boeckmann would photograph the buttocks of the men as they were bending to retrieve the garbage.

They were bent on destroying and killing".

They were bent over, looking at something on the ground.

They were bent, scribbled on, captioned and recaptioned.

Some rebel groups declared they were bent on revenge for the Baniyas killings.

They were bent on seeing one narrative moment in the painting.

But, even so, "They were bent / By paths coincident / On being anon twin halves of one august event".

Mr Morsi and his fellow Muslim Brothers angered many by failing to form an inclusive government, feeding fears that they were bent on Islamising Egyptian society.

Film of them setting alight Khomeini's portrait was calculated to convey the message that they were bent on reversing the 1979 Islamic revolution.