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

Other now-former employees rather pointedly noted the timing of Bending Spoons’ recent incursion; Buitenhuis even added that it “feels bad to see something you built get Spooned.”

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2026

Technology company Bending Spoons is buying AOL from private-equity firm Apollo Global Management APO 0.39%increase; green up pointing triangle , the latest in a string of ownership changes for the internet pioneer.

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 my knees at the shallow end, I arched my back until my head and shoulder blades were resting on the water.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas