In the great depression between the quartzite ranges, the moraine bends westward, showing that the ice advanced farther on the lowlands than on the ridges.
At the bends in its course, cutting is often taking place on the outside of a curve while deposition is going on in the inside.
Take hold and bend them: the wood bends to a certain degree, and then splits; the pasteboard, bent to the same degree, is not affected in the least.
He bends all his forces against those that are above him, and, like a free-born English mastiff, plays always at the head.
When we reached some high bluff, we never tired of watching the command advancing, with the long line of supply wagons, with their white covers, winding around bends in the road and climbing over the hills.
The bends in the Missouri River are sometimes so long that the steamer with supplies would have to make a journey of sixty miles while we had perhaps only five to march across the peninsula.
When the wind blows always from the same direction upon a row of pines, it bends them all in the same direction.
The rosy-bosom'd Spring To weeping fancy pines; and yon bright arch, Contracted, bends into a dusky vault.
It hides itself, it bends over, it rises to the ear even as those who bear it lie concealed, stoop forward, or stand erect in the corn and in the grass.
Near, for the same young moon so idly swinging Her threadlike crescent bends the selfsame smile On that old land from whence a ship is bringing My message from the transatlantic Isle.
One savage yell-- Then loyal to his race, He bends to death--but never to disgrace.
Ray bends down on his neck, intent with eye and ear.
Ray bends low and gives Dandy one vigorous prod with the spur, and with muttered prayer and clinched teeth and fists he leaps into the wildest race for his life.
Grief bends alone above the lonely clay; But over grief and death th' Eternal Eye Shines down,--and Hope lives ever in the sky.
To him a Voice floats down from every star; An Angel bends from every cloud that rolls; Life has no mystery from our sight more far Than the still joy in solemn Poet-souls.
Eustace takes the lamp and bends over him to see; and as he bends he hears Frank whispering in his dreams his mother's name, and a name higher and holier still.
She was graceful and tall as the willow, that bends o'er the deep shady stream.
Then, too, I remember the shape of the bank, and look how the river bends round and comes in a curve.
Gets dammed up together in bends and corners of the river, and makes it cut itself a fresh bed to right or left.
When the Person has made an End of speaking, he bends one Knee to the Ground, and stretches forth his Hand, as a Signal that he desires to kiss that of the Emperor, which his Majesty never refuses.
But when pallid winter, again on the rocks Shakes down in a shower the snow from his locks, Then comes the desire for heat, in full force, And Southward our phalanx bends swiftly its course.
But, as he bends forward, a sudden jerk of the Iroquois, occasioned by returning life, draws him unwittingly over the line which marks the boundaries of his kingdom and sway.
The Manitou has reached him, and, with a fiend-like laugh on his horrid face, bends exultingly forward to seize his helpless victims.
The fundus presses forcibly against the rectum, while the upper part of the vagina bends abruptly and forms an acute angle near the mouth of the uterus.
The body being kept in an upright position, the patient bends the knees rather than the back in stooping, as illustrated in Fig.
Nor, Valgius, on the Armenian shores Do the chain'd waters always freeze; Not always furious Boreas roars, Or bends with violent force the trees.
Our route passed occasionally through reeds as we cut off the bends of the river; but they formed no serious impediment although they stood so high that we occasionally experienced some difficulty in following each other through them.
I found we could follow the general course without entering bends by travelling at the base of a second bank, which seemed to divide the yarra-tree flats from the scrubby ground behind.
These lagoons looked like different bends of a river, although we saw the ends of both and passed on firm ground between them.
The apex of the leaf perceives the stimulus, and the effect is transmitted to the hypocotyl, which responds by becoming curved so that the seedling bends towards light.
This latter condition may be secured by holding the plant upside down, when the pulvinus bends up and the leaf becomes erect and almost parallel to the vertical lines of gravity and to vertical light from above.
A growing plant bends towards light, and this is true not only of the main stem but also of its branches and attached leaves and leaflets.
The experiments that have been described in the preceding chapter show that the upper side of a horizontally laid shoot undergoes excitatory contraction, in consequence of which the organ bends upwards.
Growth is very active in this particular zone, and the change of growth, induced by the transmitted effect of stimulus, brings about a curvature by which the tip of the seedling bends towards light.
The numerous bends of the Mississippi are of service in rendering the river navigable.
New bendsare thus formed that may, in time, be as large as those overcome.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
