The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.
She holds up her phone to show a photo of UNDERWOOD looking at her ass as she bends over a Skee-Ball table at Chuck E. Cheese.
The arc of the moral universe is long, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, but it bends toward justice.
But Obama has proven himself to be a pragmatic politician, who bends to pressure as he did in abandoning plans to bomb Syria.
The river slinks between lush trees, its bends offering cover to the solitary figure wading across.
Over all bends the eternal heaven in its silence and mystery.
So saying, she bends and presses her soft sweet lips to his cheek.
He bends down as if to kiss her, but she shrinks back out of his reach.
His arms tighten about her as he bends down and forces a kiss on her lips again.
They lie just on the edge of the ice, and follow all the bends and sinuosities of the shore.
Old English bendan "to bend a bow; confine with a string, fetter," causative of bindan "to bind," from Proto-Germanic base *band- "string, band" (cf. Old Norse benda "to join, strain, strive, bend"), from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind" (cf. Gothic bindan, Old High German bintan, Sanskrit badhnati "binds," Lithuanian bendras "partner;" Old Persian bandaka- "subject").
Modern sense (early 14c.) is via notion of bending a bow to string it. Cognate with band, bind, and bond. Related: Bended; bent; bending.
"a bending or curving," 1590s; "thing of bent shape," c.1600, from bend (v.). Earlier "act of drawing a bow" (mid-15c.). The bends "decompression pain" first attested 1894.
"broad diagonal band in a coat-of-arms, etc.," c.1400, from earlier sense of "thin, flat strap for wrapping round," from Old English bend "fetter, shackle, chain," from PIE *bhendh- (see bend (v.)).
bends (běndz)
n.
See decompression sickness.
bend (běnd)
v. bent (běnt), bend·ing, bends
To incline the body; stoop.
noun
bender (1870s+)
verb
To slur a note: They alter pitch and they call it ''bending'' (1940s+ Jazz musicians)
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