Sentence examples for were bent to from inspiring English sources

In the distance, dozens of laborers were bent to the ground, planting corn and onions.

Fruit-laden branches on Averill's trees were bent to the ground by mid-September; a few had even broken from the weight.

The report (online here), claims that an internal IMF document will admit that it underestimated the impact of the country's austerity programme, and also that rules were bent to keep Greece within the programme.

Earlier on Tuesday, party leaders called on Sanders to distance himself from angry scenes at a state convention in Nevada this weekend, where his supporters claimed rules were bent to favour Clinton.

(One trick I did employ: putting on the jeans after pulling them out of the tub, then crouching low to the ground for a few seconds. After hanging dry, they were bent to shape).

The pins were bent to prevent migration and cut off outside the skin to allow removal in the outpatient clinic.

Imagine what will happen when this is bent to political ends.

Statistics are supposed to have a plastic quality that allows them to be bent to prove any argument.

"What I am worried about is a justice system that can be bent to service the rich," the columnist Richard Godwin wrote in The Evening Standard.

Florent Grelier, a clean vehicles engineer at the Transport and Environment (T&E) campaign group, told the Guardian he feared that EU attempts to improve air quality were being "bent to the will of the automotive industry".

The first person you meet in the book is Fat Curt, a veteran of the corner, with "needle-scarred hands", arms like "swollen leather" and "bloated legs" who is "bent to this ancient business of survival".