Example Sentences

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Grassley affably but unbendingly explained to her that there would be no agreement without agriculture.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2019

The performers’ unbendingly upright quality is not confined to the center of the body.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2016

A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its armed services special subcommittee on airpower listened unbendingly as Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles tried to head off the proposed increase.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rest were silent, the brother with the pipe looking at me unbendingly.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison