unbends
- present tense form of unbend (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2023
But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017
Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
It is the henbane, a cruel and dangerous poison, but a powerful emollient, a soft sedative poultice, which melts, unbends, lulls to sleep the pain, often taking it quite away.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
