bends
/ (bɛndz) /
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The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.
What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face? | Goldie Taylor | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTToday, instead of men performing backbreaking work on creaking machinery, unkempt grass bends in the light breeze.
As the police officer bends down to inspect the body, a mouse "blows out" of its chest.
Death in the Heartland: What Happened to Steven Haataja? | Tim Teeman | March 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe holds up her phone to show a photo of UNDERWOOD looking at her ass as she bends over a Skee-Ball table at Chuck E. Cheese.
Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden | Kelly Williams Brown | February 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe arc of the moral universe is long, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, but it bends toward justice.
“I understand that the river bends around the range, and the crest of the first rise seems no great height,” he said.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossThe consumptive bends over his work, fearfully eyeing the keeper's measuring stick.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanIf the thought all bends one way, if this direction is perfectly clear, there is no need of conjunctions.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThe reed bends but it breaks not, for it groweth by the water, and its roots are strong.
It is the proving that bends the back, tries the patience, strains to the utmost the man's inborn Instinct of the Metal.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward White
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