unbend
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“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
My joints were frozen with terror — I couldn’t unbend my fingers to drop it.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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
After supper, when he has lit his pipe, Hamsun generally selects a chair near the sofa where he has placed his visitor, and then he unbends.
From Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen
Jennie was his companion now, and as he more and more unbended, and even joyously flung aside the habiliments of his dignity, her perception of him grew clearer.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
Louis, who always unbended to a merry jester, was showing his pictures to Killigrew, when they came to a painting of the Crucifixion, placed between portraits of the Pope and the "Roi Soleil" himself.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
"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
I must he in the battle, but I'll go With empty quiver, and unbended bow; Not draw an arrow in this fatal strife, For fear its point should reach your noble life.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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
She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
"It's been run into by cars and bent and unbent, but it keeps going."
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2011
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
“I changed some things. But I was unbending on the bar, especially since it was in the renderings, and they had shown it on social media.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have taken an unbending line in support of Ukraine, and this could make it difficult for one of their leaders to get the job.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
She smiled, and her manner instead of being still and unbending as it usually was became startlingly familiar, fawning even.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
