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How to use bends in a sentence

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Where there are bends in the ductwork an explosion vent of the appropriate size should be positioned on the bend.
Any roofless car will flex in the bends and on oddly-cambered roads, and the 307 CC is no exception.
The number of divers suffering the bends in Scapa Flow is five times higher than the global average, it was revealed this week.
And then you're in the same problem that divers have when they come up from a great depth, the problem of nitrogen bends, decompression sickness.
The mind bends in contemplation of her ceaseless ability to reapply herself.
The bends, or decompression sickness, occurs as that dissolved nitrogen comes back out of solution as a diver surfaces.
A diver was treated in the decompression chamber after surfacing on Sunday afternoon with symptoms of the bends.
The navy had an emergency decompression chamber on stand by in case one of the divers suffered the bends.
The disease suffered by divers known as the bends is an example of the same phenomenon.
Often called the bends, decompression sickness causes nitrogen bubbles in the tissues of a diver's body when he attempts to surface too rapidly.
Knees bent and her head bobbing, Liadan's fingers fairly fly across the fingerboard as she bends her pick out of shape.
There are cases of divers getting the bends as they returned through the Alps after diving the Mediterranean.
Gaulier bends her at the waist, her arms pinioned behind her, and karate-chops her back.
He bends down and tosses a stick to Baxter, who obligingly fetches it and brings it back.
The woman reported symptoms of decompression sickness, or the bends, and was immediately put on oxygen as their boat headed back to the harbour.
The three wavy bends on the shield are the three main rivers in the district.
Halfway home, the film bends to formula and delves into melodrama as it tones down the comedy.
The route soon turns into hairpin bends where the area is dotted with tea estates.
He bends down slightly, surprising her, and starts humming along in her ear.
Audacious loops, bends and swerves are undertaken at astonishing speed and with awesome precision.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In front the peristome bends sharply to the right and extends as far as the right end of the adoral zone.
For it lies between north and north-east, and bends with a rounding towards the Anadyr.
His arms tighten about her as he bends down and forces a kiss on her lips again.
They lie just on the edge of the ice, and follow all the bends and sinuosities of the shore.
The bunch grass on the diminishing benches at the bends was withered and brown.
The fresh morning breeze flutters gently through the tall grass, which it bends by its light and cadenced movements.
Huge tea-trees, with cushiony bark, straddle it, and ferns grow strongly in all its nooks and bends.
Its solution bends the luminous rays in circumpolarisation to the right, whereas grape and fecula sugars bend it to the left.
In the older ducks this is hard while in the young ducks it is gristly and bends easily.
Gather up the amount to be shortened, then make a half hitch round each of the bends as shown in the diagram.
Above her ruddy head a shadbush bends itself, russet and white like her own woods-dress.
First the strong bow that bends to our hand, then the straight arrow, tough and trim, and the feathers that wing it to its mark.
It swishes fast round gravelly bends into large eddying pools where in their season the salmon and peal lie.
The four bones of the wing finger measure, from the point where the first bone bends upon the metacarpus, less than 18 inches.
It found the votaress under full headway, with a physician aboard and Bayou Sara one great reach and two great bends behind.
The bladder fern is propagated in part from its bulblets, while the walking leaf bends over to the earth and roots at the tip.
He detaches a pencil from his watch chain and bends over the paper, writing.
Just before him a runnel of water is gliding, and he bends his head to drink.
Umslopogaas bends forward, his long arm shoots out, the axe gleams, and a man who came on falls back.
The sweat starts out on his forehead, and he bends over like a cyclist on the last lap of a race.
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