Sentence examples for unbent from inspiring English sources

The first time I saw Holly Burn, for example, she was lying on the floor with a makeshift hooking device (I think it was a coat hanger, unbent), and was trying to get things off a sort of washing line above her head, in silence.

In short the child who couldn't understand why injustice would be done to anybody appears undimmed, unbroken and unbent - a heartening start indeed.

Caperton unbent a paper clip and pricked at the wrapper.

An hour or so into our boat ride, Juan turned off the motor, unhooked the car battery, and, using a pair of pliers and what looked like two unbent coat hangers, began to attach a replacement.

As a child, I admired my parents' original 1982 Genus Edition: I loved the plain, dusty blue box, the candy-colored triangular plastic wedges, and the crisp, unbent cards.

Her wrists never unbent, and she used her hands as though they were two large claws.

"White had not unbent as much as one inch for the occasion," Mr. Wolfe wrote.

You'll bend parts of your body previously unbent.

They are exhausted but unbent.

The question seems to shock her because, having unbent a little, she reverts to her most formidable duchess mode: 'I don't think about sex unless I'm in love with somebody.

James Cohan, 533 West 26th Street, (212) 714-9500, through Feb. 25. (Johnson) AMY RATHBONE: 'UNBENT' Operating somewhere between Richard Tuttle and Ree Morton, this artist embeds wires of different lengths and colors in the wall to create whiskery textures, clustered hoops or trailing lines.