bend
verb (used with object)
to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form.
have bended
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present perfectof bend.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Christ has come, and in Him the heavens have bended down to touch, and touching to bless, this low earth, and man and God are at one once more.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
You might have bended and moulded it into what form you pleased.
From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin
The religion which he professed rendered him incapable of holding any office under the new government, even if he could have bended his political principles to take the oaths to William and Mary.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
It compasseth the heavens about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Sir 43:12 It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
