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Example sentences for "bent down"

  • No matter how you manage it, the iron must follow the bones of the foot until it reaches the toes, and then it can be bent down to a perpendicular line and passed through the pedestal, always out of sight.

  • In my judgment it is always best in determining this latter point to take the angle made by the tail (underneath) and the rump when the tail hangs or is bent down at an angle of forty-five degrees to the spinal column.

  • And he bent down close, repeating: "Do you understand--you bad wife!

  • He felt a choke in his throat, bent down to her hand, and kissed it; then shouldered his rod, and marched away.

  • The bearer who was taking notes bent down.

  • He raised himself up quickly and passed his hand across his eyes, as if to sweep away some film which hindered his reading, and the silence in that room was terrible as he bent down again.

  • He bent down, and whispered a few words in the young man's ear, words which turned him crimson, and then deadly pale.

  • I did more than kneel; I bent down my very head upon the ground.

  • I bent down my head into my hands where he could not see me weeping.

  • I bent down my cheek to put it into the way of those natural weapons of his as he fenced about with them.

  • I bent down, and he began talking in a low whisper, full of earnestness, as he unrolled his plan, and as he went on my heart began to beat, and my cheeks to flush.

  • Salaman glanced at the motionless figure with its head bent down, and then hurried away to obey my command.

  • Sighing heavily as he bent down he knocked his short sword against a stone, and sat down on his heels near to Garaska.

  • His unaccustomed eye was playing him false; he stepped back, shook his head, stooped for a fresh brick, striking the ground with his sabre as he bent down.

  • Once more I bent down to the water, and alongside of my own reflection I perceived another fiery spectre, tall and erect, and to my horror just like a human being.

  • She gave him both her hands, and he bent down to kiss them.

  • He bent down to kiss her hand, till his forehead almost touched her knee, and in the few moments that passed before he raised it, she heard him laughing softly to himself, as if with irrepressible delight.

  • He bent down to take the slender hand in his, lifted it to his lips, and quickly let it go; but not before she had felt his tears upon it.

  • I started up, and going to the light, bent down to examine it.

  • I opened the little gate, and stealing across the churchyard, bent down to read the names upon the graves that had been made since I had been away.

  • You'd hardly let me go so quietly if you were awake, I think," I said to myself, as I bent down to kiss her.

  • He bent down, whispering, and showed Pelle a file ground to a point, which was fastened into a heavy handle.

  • When he was near he bent down as though picking something up.

  • Great Power" bent down as though something heavy pressed upon him, and allowed her to seize his ear.

  • Something had fallen at his feet, and he bent down to pick it up.

  • Suddenly he bent down, crushed his face to hers, and kissed her again and again.

  • He bent down, and Jeanne's lips reached his own.

  • Compelling himself to the act, he bent down, feeling along the ground for the foreman's hat having the extinguished lamp fixed on it.

  • Humphrey stepped quickly to his side, bent down, seized the projecting slab, tried to raise it, and then straightened himself and shook his head.

  • He took the hand nearest to him as he bent down, and raised the prostrate woman.

  • He bent down, placed his shoulder to one corner, gave a thrust, and the whole top glided round as if on a pivot, and revealed an opening dimly lit apparently from below.

  • Nuesslers gave Mining a kiss, he bent down to the Frau Pastorin, and gave her a kiss, as if he must make up to this good old lady what the stupid old people were inflicting upon Mining.

  • He raised himself lip quickly and passed his hand across his eyes, as if to sweep away some film which hindered his reading, and the silence in that room was terrible as he bent down again.

  • He bent down to place his arm beneath the feeble neck, and she smiled up at him with the ruling passion still strong even in death, and her words came very faintly; but he heard them all.

  • I bent down to her, and asked: 'What is it, sister?

  • I'll tell you what drives me to it," he said sullenly, and looking round him he bent down to Ivan Ossipovitch's ear.

  • He bent down to pick up the "keepsake" he had knocked down.

  • He bent down, picked it up, flushing crimson, and suddenly going up to Varvara Petrovna held out the notes he had counted.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bent down" 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:
    bent double; bent down; bent forward; bent over; bent upon; departed from; flew over; good books; great credit; great distance from the; high antiquity; internal evidence; like children; little curved; named varieties; observe that; our feet; our front; said cook; search after; second letter; smooth batter; taken literally; telling them; telling what; truly said