bendy
Americanadjective
adjective
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flexible or pliable
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having many bends
a bendy road
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bendy
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Over a period of days and weeks this can work its way down through the atmosphere influencing our jet stream, causing it to weaken, become more bendy or reverse.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Once those bendy guys are on campus, Cignetti has his strength coach put them through a bevy of mobility drills to keep their joints moving smoothly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
To address this challenge, UNC -Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University researchers have been working on an extremely bendy but sturdy robot capable of traversing lung tissue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
He was playing with that bendy quality I had.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
Mr. Pomodoro is especially bendy as he pulls his long legs and arms from the car and arranges his face in various forms of eagerness and perplexity and fumblingness.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
He thinks he'd need a bendier blade - but there's more.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
They squirrels preferred leaping from something steadier but farther from the target than from something bendier but closer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
But none fell — “That was kind of surprising,” said Hunt — and after about five jumps they all had it mastered, even when launching themselves from the tippy end of the bendiest launchpad.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
Bimini Bon Boulash, who describes herself as "London's bendiest queen" says it was difficult because she feels her industry "was thrown to the side".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2021
With the goalie nowhere to be found, Beelzebub had a wide open cage that even the bendiest bender could have scored on.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 26, 2020
In recent years, Samsung and LG have slugged it out to boast the biggest sets, but this year it may be about having the bendiest.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2016
That jentleman danced up to the tee, waving rarnd 'is head the longest and the bendiest driver that I 'ave ever seen, and 'e didn't trubble to address the ball at all.
From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various
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