chiefly British

Examples of bendy in a Sentence

the kids love to use bendy straws
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Yarbrough has tinkered with his pitch mix to favor the slower, bendier stuff, and it’s been working. Owen Poindexter, New York Times, 20 June 2025 This project is one of the many ways that physicists have sought to understand gravity, and perhaps the bendy space-time continuum itself, as emergent from deeper, more microscopic physics. George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025 The boar bristles are bendy to move with hair but still stiff enough to detangle knots. Olivia Cigliano, Footwear News, 12 June 2025 Perhaps the bendy, gravitating fabric of our universe itself emerges from whatever is happening on some lower-dimensional boundary. Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bendy

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bendy was in 1873

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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bendy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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