unbend
verb (used with object)
to straighten from a bent form or position.
have unbent
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present perfectof unbend.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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The seven have unbent to the extent of preparing to make major food and medical-aid shipments this winter to save lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
And some of them have unbent sufficiently to go to their customers instead of waiting for their customers to come to them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colonel's own brow should have unbent at the sweet sight, but it did not.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
"I'll fill the orders as fast as you can take them," boasted a Wall St. exquisite, who would have unbent his dignity to any degree to please the bewitching heiress.
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Ha!" said the First Lord, "as you would not come to us, we have unbent our dignity and come to you.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
