Bend

If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.

Don’t bend your knees.

Look at the trees bending in the wind.

Bend thine ear to supplication.

Towards Coventry bend we our course.

bending her eyes on the floor

The road bends to the right.

to whom our vows and wishes bend

He bent down to pick up the pieces.

Each to his great Father bends.

They bent me to their will.

Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after Except she bend her humour, shall be assured To taste of too.

Leviathan: You cannot conceive of a galaxy that bends to your will. Leviathan: Every creature, every nation, every planet we discovered became our tools. We were above the concerns of lesser species.

I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.

He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.

And I remember one great Miniſter that confeſt to me, when he fell into one of his uſual Fits of the Gout, He was no longer able to bend his mind or thoughts to any Publick Buſineſs, [...]

when to mischief mortals bend their will

He bent to the goal of gaining market share.

Palladius did not lie, although he might have bent the facts a bit and even passed over in silence whatever might not have benefited his client's cause.

Bend the sail to the yard.

You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.

There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.

I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

A simpler version of the common bend with its ends in the same direction is used to join binder twine in a hay baling machine.

A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.

Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scrope invoked the High Court of Chivalry to decide which of them had the right to bear these arms. Chaucer gave evidence before the court. In the end the arms were awarded to Scrope, and Grosvenor was ordered to difference with a bordure Argent. This he disdained to do, and being highly dissatisfied with the verdict he appealed to Richard II who altered the decision of the court by refusing to allow the bend to Grosvenor at all! Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn.

Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.

the midship bends

Many locals thought doing so contradicted the democratic spirit of skiing, where strangers sharing a lift chair might include both billionaires with second homes in Bend and ski bums living in vans.