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Example sentences for: bent

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There were few mornings when Mary did not look up, as she bent to lace her boots, and as she followed the yellow rod from curtain to breakfasttable she usually breathed some sigh of thankfulness that her life provided her with such moments of pure enjoyment.
Any state bent on keeping its "constitutional authority" unmolested is always free to buy back its sovereignty by refusing federal education aid.
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.
A few lines later, Hamlet says, "They fool me to the top of my bent."
As the prig is bent, so is the prude inclined.