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
Example Sentences
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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
The fries are more bendy than crisp but still quite good.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
Because the UV tape is bendy, and the transfer process doesn't require the use of plastic-dissolving solvents, flexible plastics can be used as the substrate of the device, expanding potential applications.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
At other times the jet stream weakens and the flow becomes much more bendy, winding northwards and southwards forming big ridges and troughs.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2023
Indeed, they are but distant cousins: logos in rhetoric being another of those bendy shadows cast on the wall of Plato’s well-known cave.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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