as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
the kids love to use bendy straws
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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.
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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
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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
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Ugg Goldencush Oxfords These sneakers have a padded tongue, a lightweight, flexible rubber outsole, and trendy metal lace D-rings.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The bill writes health reimbursement accounts into the tax code, giving small businesses more affordable and flexible health insurance options, according to NFIB.—
Cheryl Winokur Munk,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In the courtyard, faded photos of Hezbollah fighters surrounded by plastic flowers are laid out on the courtyard.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Tie up infested items in plastic bags and throw them away outdoors.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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As a remedy, researchers have created a soft mechanical metamaterial—a rubber sheet cut into a repeating pattern—that can perform matrix-vector multiplication using floppy modes, or motions that require almost no energy.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Many cooks prefer growing milder Italian parsley, which has a tall, floppy growth habit.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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