Example Sentences

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“It felt as if I had been bending all of this to my will, and now we knew then there was no controlling it,” says Nora.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016

Though the Mustangs weren’t caught till a decade after Meyer arrived in Dallas, there’s every reason to suspect SMU and its boosters had been bending the rules for years.

From Time • Feb. 25, 2015

The defense that only had been bending, suddenly was breaking.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2011

All that day the outer ridge of the Emyn Muil had been bending gradually northward, as they struggled on.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Baron Oldenburg rose from the bed, over which he had been bending.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich