bent - use in sentences

Preposition: at

  • elbow: Find one dumbell, kneel on a bench with your arm close to your side bent at the elbow.
  • knee: He supports his weight upon his left leg; his right is bent at the knee.

Preposition: on

  • self-destruction: Perhaps best of all for pop's marketing gurus, he was bent on self-destruction.
  • domination: Evil international genius masterminds bent on world domination everywhere are running for the hills.
  • revenge: Soon, the group is being stalked by cursed zombie dolls, hell bent on revenge.
  • destruction: What is left is a rotten shell of a person bent on the destruction of those who anger them.

Converse of object

  • creep: It forms hybrids with creeping bent ( A. stolonifera ). Biology: Common bent flowers from June to August.
  • seem: Later in the month Mr Lawrence wrote: Despite all our efforts UKASTA seem hell bent on pursuing their potentially damaging course.

Modifies a noun

  • tulip: So there you go; bent back tulips can solve that age-old problem of how to get out of bed.
  • inwards: This caused the left hand point blade tip to be bent inwards, the right hand one already being locked open.
  • knee: Serenade her like knights used to on bent knee.
  • spoon: Geller holds up the bent spoon for the camera, and encourages me to keep in touch.
  • cop: He's known as ' the Butcher of Mayfair ' , because he killed a bent cop and got away with it.
  • pin: A bent pin or a distorted hook or shackle is no longer is safe.

Noun used with modifier

  • hell: He loves the thrill of the car at full speed He's hell bent on taking the lead.
  • knee: Lie on back, knees bent, head off the floor, lower back flat on floor.
  • browntop: Then we sow a mix of fescue and browntop bent, and irrigate immediately afterward to give a quick, even emergence.
  • elbow: Keep the arm close to your side, elbow bent.
  • bristle: The dry heath areas are dominated by ling, bell heather and bristle bent grass.
  • brow: See how he leans against that tree, with his arms crossed and his brow bent.

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