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Example sentences for "bending forward"

  • You do not find it so, I imagine,' he replied, bending forward to her with a charming gesture of homage.

  • Yes,' he said, bending forward that he might see her in spite of the umbrella.

  • Exactly,' said Cousin Feenix, bending forward to see the mild man, and smile encouragement at him down the table.

  • She was sitting beside me now, bending forward, all consoling eagerness.

  • As the car crept by the old majordomo, he saluted, and she spoke to him, bending forward for a moment to rest her fingers on his sleeve.

  • With every glance I stole at him a lump in my throat grew bigger, and in the end, bending forward, I laid a hand on his knee.

  • When she had finished, Monsieur Harmost, bending forward, lifted one of her hands and put his lips to it.

  • Pierson put his other hand on her shoulder and, bending forward, kissed her forehead.

  • A vision of her white form risen to its feet, bending forward like a creature caught, that cannot tell which way to spring; a crashing shock, his head striking something hard!

  • But Frances Freeland, bending forward, fixed her eyes piercingly on Kirsteen's neck, as if she were noticing something there more important than that about tyranny!

  • I should much like to hear the story of Thibaut," said Piers, bending forward a little.

  • Bending forward, his hands folded between his knees, Otway listened with a face on which trouble began to reassert itself after the emotion of their meeting.

  • But he really was working at it," said Mrs. Hannaford, bending forward with a peculiar earnestness.

  • Before he had sung a dozen notes, Beatrix, bending forward, was listening with parted lips and flushing cheeks.

  • But--" Bending forward, he took up one of the spoons from the table and looked at it intently for a moment.

  • He sat silent for a moment while, bending forward, he idly picked out the first few notes of the cavatina on the lowest octave of the bass.

  • It was altogether likely that he had been doing so, that he had seen Myra sitting beside Hollister with her hand on his shoulder, bending forward to peer into Hollister's face.

  • She clasped her hands over her knees, bending forward a little, looking at him with a curious serenity.

  • She stood within the threshold a few feet, the light of the lantern hanging in an angle of the wall over her, bending forward in the pose of one who listened.

  • Joan studied his face with eager hopefulness, bending forward a bit to see better in the failing light.

  • The closing signal consisted in bending forward on the part of the one exhibiting the mare, while up to that point he had stood bolt upright.

  • I ejaculated, bending forward to renew my questions about the bull-baiting.

  • For a moment he stood as if it were an effort rending soul and body to leave me; he held my hands tightly in his own, then, bending forward, pressed a kiss on my forehead, and was gone.

  • You do not find it so I imagine,' he replied, bending forward to her with a charming gesture of homage.

  • Bending forward, Carew drew the black-handled knife and fork from the coils of his putties.

  • The girl sat, bending forward in her chair, her strong, quiet hands clasped loosely in her lap.

  • Bending forward, she laid her strong, firm hand upon the hand of the Captain, noting, as she did so, that the finger tips were cold to her own warm touch.

  • Presumably disappointed, he swung back to face the girl, bending forward to reach her ears with accents low-pitched and confidential.

  • By bending forward a little and staring past the aviator Lanyard could catch a glimpse of Lucy Shannon.

  • Bending forward, he unlatched the door and, glancing through the window, uttered a grunt of profound disgust.

  • Nancy put down the cup, and, bending forward, kissed Fraeulein's downy cheek.

  • Bending forward, he took her hand and kissed it.

  • And, bending forward, he kissed her forehead.

  • Sometimes came a wave of men in red caps, bending forward a pike, at the end of which could be seen a discoloured head with the hair hanging down.

  • He had even the politeness to unfasten the halberd, and, bending forward, raising his arms and stamping with his heels, he made a show of hamstringing a horse, stabbing as if with a bayonet and overpowering an enemy.

  • All at once the soil appeared to him to be shaking, and the cliff over his head to be bending forward at its summit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bending forward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absence from; bending down; bending forward; bending over; book cover; carrying capacity; close the; doing work; fine paper; good many; good mistress; guard duty; immediate abolition; knew very; left home; minister from; peace establishment; poetic diction; prodigious quantity; public documents; spiritual sense; thousand fold; trespass offering; while boiling