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Example sentences for "bending over"

  • Alice, bending over me with a pale face, as she gave me the wine.

  • I could not recollect myself for the moment, nor how I had come to be here; but when I lifted my head, I saw him seated where I had seated myself last night, bending over a bright fire, with his arm supporting his head.

  • Caldwell and Mr. Price stood with their heads together bending over a sheet on which Mr. Price was making calculations.

  • Adieu, Mademoiselle," said he, bending over Suzanne's unresisting hand.

  • Then we were both beside her, bending over her, she sitting upright and smiling at us.

  • Honora, bending over, took the face of the faithful old servant and kissed it.

  • Bending over, he laid his arm across her shoulder, and whispered: "Is there anything I can do, darling?

  • Bending over him I said, 'Do you want to see your father?

  • Bending over it he sees that the letter he pressed is B, and that the pressure has caused the figure 2 to spring up on the surface of the knob.

  • Bending over in his old blue army coat with the tarnished epaulets, he prodded the pile of leaves, where the scented smoke hung low in a cloud.

  • I asked, and the next instant, bending over as she looked up, I kissed her parted lips.

  • Bending over I offered her my arm, my head still uncovered.

  • Bending over me, she laid her cheek to mine, and stroked the hair back from my forehead with her small, cool hand, which reminded me of the touch of roses.

  • Standing in the doorway, he looked about him till his eye lighted upon his two friends, seated at a small table by a distant window, with a black waiter, card in hand, bending over in consultation with them.

  • Bending over her, he asked her timidly: "What is it?

  • Lup Reznikov walked arm in arm with Yakov Mayakin, and, bending over to his ear, whispered something to him, while the latter listened and smiled.

  • This one has no hurt," said the old woman, bending over him.

  • Bending over him, Nina replied, "I'm here, doctor.

  • It is a fine beard," said Rex, bending over it.

  • Good night," he said once more, and, bending over her, gently laid the little gold clasp in her open hand.

  • One sultry evening in August he was walking in the country, and noticed a perambulator with a white figure, which he took to be that of a remarkably tall nursemaid, bending over it.

  • To his utter amazement he saw, bending over a body, which he at once identified as that of their driver, the figure of a woman.

  • And kneeling beside her, holding both her helpless wrists, bending over her in a kind of passionate, triumphant possession, was Alice Manisty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bending over" 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:
    add the; being kept; bending down; bending forward; bending over; does appear; domestic state; eight cases; forms part; general were; head like; maritime warfare; nearly always; ordered them; privately owned; shot from; spiritual character; still lives; vertical direction; waste paper; whipped cream; who said; will command; would explain