BEND in a Sentence

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218 example sentences for BEND, such as:

1. It's hard to bend an iron bar.
2. Best to bend while 'tis a twig.
3. Accidents regularly occur on this bend.
4. We can never bend him from his purpose.
5. But it wasn't Sam who came round the bend.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bend
 v.  curve something, like moving your body or part of it not straight
Classic Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
1  Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  She rose and went out onto the front porch and looked for them impatiently, but the Meade house was around a shady bend in the street and she could see no one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  The bearded man said nothing and plodded on out of sight around the bend of the road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  They rounded the bend of the wagon path and turned into the main road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Averting her nose, she flapped the reins smartly across the horse's back and hurried him past and around the bend of the road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  The sun had completely gone when she reached the bend in the road above Shantytown and the woods about her were dark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  But it wasn't Sam who came round the bend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  Selden, following her glance, perceived a party of people advancing toward them from the farther bend of the path.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  She dropped to the seat without answering, but the electric lamp at the bend of the path shed a gleam on the struggling misery of her face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
10  Far off whistles at night, round the river bend, plunking paddles reechoed by the pines, and a glow on black sliding waters.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  While her mind groped, the lights of a motor car swooped round a bend in the road, and they stood farther apart.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  For, of course, each boat is supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first one be ineffectually darted without recovery.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
13  If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
14  The road followed the windings of the draw; when she came to the first bend, she waved at me and disappeared.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
15  Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Ease down; there's a sharp bend ahead.
2  When I bend my arm, the pain is excruciating.
3  It's hard to bend an iron bar.
4  A bend in the road is not the end of the road.
5  Best to bend while 'tis a twig.
6  Slowly bend from the waist and bring your head down to your knees.
7  Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
8  Accidents regularly occur on this bend.
9  There is a particular urgency in this case, and it would help if you could bend the rules.
10  We can never bend him from his purpose.
11  Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.
12  Earlier this week EU governments voted to bend the rules o that France and Germany wouldn't be penalized for breaking the rules on budget deficits.
13  Copper is an extremely ductile material: you can stretch it into the thinnest of wires, bend it, even wind it into loops.
14  And thus he would die -- out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came.
15  "I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly: "you had got to the fifth bend, I think?"