How to Use bend in a Sentence

bend

1 of 2 verb

• The trees were bending in the wind.
• He bent back to look up at the ceiling.
• He bent the bow and shot an arrow from it.
• The branch will bend before it breaks.
• She bent down to pick up a piece of paper and then she straightened up again.
• His glasses got bent when he dropped them.
• Don’t bend over or crouch down.
  — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Don’t bend over or crouch down.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 Apr. 2026
• Don’t bend over or crouch down.
  — Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026
• Which bends, the man or the law?
  — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
• Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
• Take a big step to the side and bend your knee.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
• If this feels too tough, don’t bend down so far.
  — Yoga With Kassandra, Outside, 11 Oct. 2025
• Keep your left knee bent over your hip and your left arm straight up.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• Sneaky bent down to reassess the corpse.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• Kimbrel bent but didn’t break in the ninth.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
• To check, gently bend a twig back and forth.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2026
• Seay bends down in the hallway and leans in.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
• Gazes tangle, sound mutes, time bends.
  — Addie Citchens, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
• Stand on your right leg and bend the knee slightly.
  — Gerard Hartmann, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
• To stretch your soleus muscle, bend your back knee.
  — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 30 Oct. 2025
• But Sex and the City bends to no rules!
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
• Then, bend your front knee while keeping the back leg straight.
  — Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 28 July 2023
• Dick stretched his neck out low over the water and bent his knees.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• One way is to bend a springy sapling down with your weight and tie its top to the deer.
  — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
• Maybe Shohei Ohtani can bend time to his will as well.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026
• If this is too hard, bend your knees and lift them up towards your waist.
  — Greg Presto, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
• Years ago, the clip used for the line tie would sometimes bend out on large fish.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
• The movie bent itself around her in other ways.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
• The tall, dark-haired son bent over to bury his face in his mother's hair.
  — ABC News, 28 May 2026

bend

2 of 2 noun

• So what’s right around the bend?
  — Mary Holland, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026
• Keep a slight bend at the knees.
  — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
• He's got great bend and speed off the edge.
  — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
• Repeat the pelvic tuck and side bend.
  — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
• Those that do dive down to the deep gates can get the bends and die.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• But don’t fret, lower prices should be around the bend.
  — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
• Stand with your legs apart and reach your left hand to the right for a side bend.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 20 Dec. 2025
• Stand with your legs apart and reach your left hand to the right for a side bend.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
• To make a right-angle bend, use the width of the anvil's face.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• Then around the bend came the Carys in their canoe.
  — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
• Factories are just out of sight around the stream's bend.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
• Even modest savings per bend add up.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
• On the exhale, raise both arms out to the side with a slight bend at each elbow.
  — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
• These forms include core, squat, push, lunge, pull, agility and bend.
  — Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 20 July 2023
• Even the smallest twist or bend can send pain shooting from your back down to your legs.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• Cover the first two-thirds of the shank with thread from the hook eye toward the bend.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
• Phillips plays too high and needs to get more knee bend as well as improve hand placement.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• The hook eye gets poked through the top of the tube’s head and the hook bend gets hidden in the skirt.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Does the water take a sharp bend to enter the culvert?
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• Keep a slight bend in the knees while standing in that position.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• As your foot bends and stiffens, the GearFlex plate does the same.
  — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
• Pull one knee up to where there is a 90 degree bend in both the knee and the hip.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Shaw reflected on the bends in the river that have led now to three films.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
• This is where the terror-edge of being lost bends to leisurely joy.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The star's hair was styled simply with just the teeniest hint of a bend.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 May 2026
• But just around a few bends in the sandstone walls, life began to appear.
  — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
• Things just get weirder around every bend for this patchwork team.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
• It has long been said that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice.
  — David Ostendorf, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
• Keep a slight bend in your knees to reduce strain and improve ease of movement.
  — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 20 Jan. 2026
• Epperson agrees and says that a bouncy blowout with some bends is the way to go.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 30 June 2023