unbent

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.

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

He participated enthusiastically in their demonstrations, wearing a uniform with the swastika emblem and marching with his knees unbent in the goose-step style, like the Nazis that he fully supported.

An old man with a sun-weathered straw hat and faded overalls unbent himself from his chores in the garden to nod our way as we walked up to him.

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