Example Sentences

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Bending over to pick up a pen one day, she suffered a spinal injury that has left her paralysed.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Bending Spoons’ lucrative process, a strategic business pivot from years of failed app development, involves loads of venture capital fundraising, which is then spent on platforms that have lost market prowess in the post-COVID era.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2026

Bending Spoons also owns video distribution and analytics company Brightcove, and said in September that it would buy video platform Vimeo for $1.38 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Bending metal — the actual process of making rovers and spaceships and telescopes — drives economic activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

Bending down, he felt along the edge of the carpet near the wall for the pine bar—part of a music stand he had hidden there that afternoon.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson