Example Sentences

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And at a national level, politicians have been bending the same way, from France to Spain and Belgium.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2024

By resisting and heel-dragging when they should have been bending over backward to clean up, they have burned through nine lives and run up giant tabs in the last-chance saloon.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2016

Colin was new at the club; I should have been bending over backwards for him.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2014

But in the great tradition of teenagers challenging authority, students at schools that require uniforms have been bending the rules a bit, showing up to class in cargo shorts, leggings and yoga pants.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011

Consider that, from the earliest ages of the world, religion, liberty, and reason have been bending their course towards the setting sun.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.