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How to use the word bends in a Sentence?

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said,' the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice,' and it takes all of us to usher it into existence.'.

City Council

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People have lost confidence in its neutrality that justice is blind. Instead they think justice bends to Donald Trump's will.

Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

Criminal Defense Attorney Jolanda Jones

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Are we going to immediately get to the same standards that everyone else is at? Probably not, but what we need to do is put together a credible, science-based plan that will sustain the review of experts, that bends the curve and sets Alberta on the right path.

Premier Rachel Notley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think the dam will break at some point, the arc of history bends towards truth.

Michael Greenstone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you walk, your hip bends at about half of the range that your knee bends— people don’t realize that. Your hip works a lot less than your knee from the perspective of movement … because they’re carrying the whole load of the hip muscles, they have to work harder.

Alberto Esquenazi

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

added by anonymous
9 years ago

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

R Chamberlain

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Magha

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow

The Talmud

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14 years ago

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    (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
    A soft-witted
    B foreordained
    C articulate
    D ambidextrous