bending

Example Sentences

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"We are bending backwards to help but we don't have a magic wand," she said, calling on African governments to help with tax breaks and investments of their own.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime by mass, similar to how a heavy object distorts a stretched surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

This opportunity arose at the Dubai Desert Classic in 2001, when Tiger was bending down to pick grass up to check the wind direction for his second shot to the 18th green.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Poised on a colorful, carpeted platform in a gleaming leotard, with a hefty brown braid of hair falling over one shoulder, Folan would spend her program reaching, bending, breathing and twisting her limbs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Used chess books were everywhere, hidden in every conceivable crevice, many stacked from floor to ceiling or on top of chairs, or weighing down and bending the shelves.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady