unbend

“So by oscillating the voltage back and forth, you can bend and unbend the strip, which will generate waves to drive the movement,” Cohen says.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022

Even if your parents rage against that restriction, they can’t force you to unbend.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021

But every part of the process – including the coat hanger we unbend to use as a roasting spit — is a product of the Industrial Revolution.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018

As Charlie Price, the starchy young shoe factory heir who learns to unbend and open his mind under Lola’s tutelage, Andy Kelso is most charmingly awkward in the role created by Stark Sands.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015

Yet her fingers would not seem to unbend.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2023

But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017

Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010

When he pities the animals, who are worth more than ourselves, their executioners, when he pities the elementary existences, the plants and trees, those exquisite creations, he unbends and pours out his heart.

From Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

If she had a fault it was her unbended determination to go through with any thing she once undertook.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

Gerhardt had unbended so gradually that his interest was not even yet clearly discernible, but he had a distinct feeling of kindliness toward her.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

From his father, Nehemiah Roby, who was for many years Master of the Grammar-School at Haigh, near Wigan, he inherited a good constitution and unbended principles of honour and integrity.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

"There have been pleadings, and revilings—tears, and curses— bended knees, and unbended arms."

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

The unbended sail Flaps idly in the passing wind; And dark below, each dull canal Is stagnant as its owner's mind!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023

The tournament has the unbent feel of a week-and-a-half-long summer camp.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019

Though his mother, Ms. Giuliano, also looked haggard, she remained unbent.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018

She bent and unbent her neck exactly how Dad does after a very long drive.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

In his one shot at the Champions League, Postecoglou was unbending in his attacking mindset even when drawn against Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

She’s watchful, she’s contained, inhabiting the character’s resilience and giving her a core of unbending steel.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

It reminded him that pure, unbending clarity of purpose existed, just not in himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

Ms. Washington gave me a minute to soften up and give in, because she didn’t know about my heart and its resolution, and that she was dealing with a mighty and unbending will.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan