bend
verb (used with object)
to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form.
am bending
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present progressiveof bend (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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He has made a really big deal about how I cannot say anything disparaging about him to our daughter, and I am bending over backward to be sure that I comply with that.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2019
It is to make any such condition impossible that I am bending all my energies to get on my feet again.”
From The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart
I am bending over my desk in the dimness, writing this letter.
From Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
For myself, I am bending every energy toward the formation of a cooperative colony which will demonstrate the feasibility of a cooperative form of government for the whole nation—the whole world, in fact.
From Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower
And I am bending silently and almost pulseless over the sleeping boy, upon whose face each minute the fever-flushes play like summer lightning under a satin cloud.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
