as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
the kids love to use bendy straws
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Recent Examples of bendy
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.
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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
In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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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
In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for bendy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bendy
Adjective
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Compared to most other garden crops, carrots are relatively flexible about their lighting needs and grow in either full or part sun locations.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 July 2025
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The upcoming academic year will mark the debut of a new, more flexible ban on cellphone use at schools.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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See, 'cause unlike real living grass, plastic grass never needs mowing, watering, fertilizing, or spraying for weeds.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
30 July 2025
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Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested Jared Gray, 25, in June after investigators discovered his fingerprint on the bottom of a plastic cup inside the vehicle where Vega’s body was found, according to court records.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Dragging the roll slider up and down made the R1T go from a relaxed, floppy feel to a taut, engaging turner.—
Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
8 July 2025
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Each of her bright, floppy crimson fingers contains thousands of highly nutritious pinhead-sized seeds.—
Michael Shaikh
June 25,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2025
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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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