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

In this instance, I am bending the Honda�s curved-in sidepanel toward me, which makes it easier to apply the background, since the surface is flatter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beneath me the peaks of the Caucasus lie, My gaze from the snow-bordered cliff I am bending; From her sun-lighted eyry the Eagle ascending Floats movelessly on in a line with mine eye.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

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 Tagore, Rabindranath

I am bending them in concave cathode of force over the city.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry