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

Taking small steps Mr. Hübbe has begun to unbend certain traditions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

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

Yet I could have wished that he had been less parsimonious with his human appeals, for whenever he unbends he can be at once interesting and informing.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

"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

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

To full satiety of grief she mourns, Then silent to the joyous hall returns, To the proud suitors bears in pensive state The unbended bow, and arrows winged with fate.

From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope

I had no desire to pry into M. Picot's secrets, but I could not help knowing that he had unbended to me because he was interested in the fur trade.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

Yet his back was still unbent, and the years had not yet robbed him of his skill at arms.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It was Wayne — America’s biggest movie star, the self-reliant enforcer, the loping lawman who set the world to rights by virtue of his unbending fortitude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

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

Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

I saw that I had been selfish and unbending and a giant pain in the ass.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer