Example sentences for: bent

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

  • He intimated that, in his humble opinion, his overseer is a loquacious and diminutive fellow of a somewhat devious and unpleasant bent, that he is afflicted with a strabismus of the sinistral optical member, and that he is currently attired in a rather noisome woolen torsal garment of an indeterminate off-chocolate hue.

  • The forest is made up of juniper trees (sabinosas) which are incredibly and grotesquely twisted, stunted, gnarled, and, in some cases, almost bent double by the wind.

  • mendicant as a fly, its legs bent as if to pray, the great swivelling head a friar's black hood, Mephistophilis disguised

  • And Avedon's book exposes a number of scars, both physical and spiritual: the disfigured face of a napalmed Vietnamese woman, the sores on a leper's fingerless hand, the bent, swollen nose of a tired, defeated-looking Abbie Hoffman.

  • It is this arm, this right arm, that is still stiff, still scarred, still bent.


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