Example sentences for: bends

How can you use “bends” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The newest hotel zone is due west of the city along the coast, stretching for 5 km (3 miles) or so before the coast bends on the way to the small town, Câmara de Lobos, and the high cliff, Cabo Girão.

  • Its name, Sa Calobra (“the snake”), gives a hint of the 13 km (8 miles) of hairpin bends that have now become a tourist attraction in themselves; one loop is so exaggerated that the road passes under itself in a knot.

  • Tail kinks ranged from single, acute bends to multiple angulations resembling knots (Fig.

  • Authorities felt that the road from Palma to Sóller, with its hairpin bends and the 496-m (1,627-ft) pass, the Coll de Sóller, was impeding development.

  • Alone in her kitchen with her cutting board, she seems to be smelling her own faint over-ripeness; when Mortensen holds his stare a beat too long, her body bends toward his as if it knows, on a cellular level, that this way lies nourishment.


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