Example Sentences

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Palms were bending sideways and tree limbs were snapping now.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025

He called the pair “two men whose arcs in life were bending in different directions.”

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

She knew they were wrong and developed her own symptom tracker which helped her work out that her triggers were bending over, walking and talking, with a delayed impact in her lungs.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2021

The Americans were bending but not breaking, and Turner remained in top form.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2021

Even the trees were bending and lifting gently, and the moon seemed to be rocking in the sky as a ship rocks on the sea.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers