chiefly British

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Recent Examples of bendy And our joints—the bendy parts of our bodies where our bones meet—take the brunt of that. Jenny McCoy, SELF, 21 July 2025 Made from knitting yarn and food-grade wax, these colorful, bendy sticks give kids the freedom to build and create (without making a mess). Laura Lu, Parents, 30 June 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for bendy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bendy
Adjective
  • The sneakers are designed with a lightweight EVA midsole for flexible support and a rubber outsole that boosts durability.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If your schedule is flexible, look at departures on weekdays, especially early and mid-week.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • SACs produced from plastic waste showed excellent performance in breaking down diverse micropollutants in water and in boosting clean-energy technologies such as batteries and fuel cells.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The plastic container with seasoning was broken and soiled.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Look out for celebrities and wearers of floppy felt hats.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Oracle was born in the floppy-disk era; Larry Ellison made his first billion in 1992.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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