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bent

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Bent \Bent\, n. [See Bend , n. & v.] The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. [Obs.] --Wilkins. A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] --Dryden. A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency ...

Usage examples of bent.

As always in his case, the human universe bent to accommodate him with the alacrity of a gravity field around a neutron star.

I taken it away from him and bent the barrel double acrost my knee and throwed it after him as he run out the back door hollering help, murder.

Whenever Nurse moved her hands, changed the position of her head, or bent her back, the afflicted complained of being bitten, pinched, and bruised.

I used my handkerchief to hold back an allergic gush from my itchy eyes and bent to get a closer look.

Some of the Hurons of Michillimackinac were bent on allying themselves with the English.

La Durantaye was reasonably sure that some of them would follow him to the war, though it was clear that others were bent on allying themselves with the Senecas and the English.

He moved with the exaggerated caution born of self-aware amateurishness, bent almost double in his care to place his feet.

Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius, one enthusiastic spectator at a crowded Vesalius dissection, bent on a better view, leaned too far out and tumbled from his bench to the dissecting platform below.

The two women arrived and bent over, hands upon knees, panting for breath.

The luckless shaven-haired monkey or rat, guinea pig or dog bent on renouncing the laboratory world for ever found itself opening its eyes on it once more from the antiseptically scrubbed floor of its cage, its drinking vessel freshly charged, its dressings ingeniously barred from investigation, its recovery a command - even, if necessary, its benefactor would minister long hours overtime to make sure it was carried out.

Taverik wanted to balk, shout to his father for help, sit down and refuse to move-but somehow his stiff knees bent and he stumbled, half-supported out the door.

Now it was Barish passed the cups among us, but I saw him gathering the herbs he put into them from the rock crevasses, and the way he searched them out and bent above them, the way he crushed them and brought them to his nose, all that was Windlow.

As the baronet said this, he bent above her hand, and raised it to his lips.

He had seen her work the barque with her shining black head bent low over the worsted likeness of the Holy Family.

Her eyes were down, considering the bent head of the child nuzzling around on the bearskin before her.