1) The doctor told me to avoid bending and stretching.

2) He was bending over his work at desk.

3) My earliest recollections are of my mother bending over my cot.

4) He is bending down to tie his shoelaces.

5) The trees were bending before the storm.

6) Several branches started bending towards the ground.

7) We have succeeded in bending the thick steel plates.

8) He was bending over his desk, writing.

9) The sailors are bending to the oars.

10) Touch your toes without bending your knees.

11) Be careful of bending that spoon.

12) Avoid bending at the waist when lifting heavy objects.

13) The sun's gravitation was bending the beam of light.

14) People are bending over backwards to please customers.

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16) In the act of bending down, he slipped and hurt his back.

17) We might be guilty of slightly bending the letter of the law.

18) I cricked my back bending to pick up the suitcase.

19) I've been bending over backwards trying to help you and this is all the thanks I get!

20) A young man was bending low to push a heavily loaded barrow up a slope.

21) These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners bending their legs.

22) She'd cut a jagged hole in the tin, bending a knife in the process.

23) He was bending down tying his shoelaces.

24) Caught me bending was nearer the mark.

25) The world was bending to my will at last.

26) He has been a nimble chameleon, bending with every turn in Whitehall attitudes to education.

27) Outside the trees are bending over backwards to please the wind: the shining sword grass flattens on its belly.

28) I wasn't exactly lying when I said I hadn't seen her-I was just bending the truth a little.

29) Twenty-one shots of the solar eclipse hang beside a woman bending over in the bath.

30) Mike and Jen climbed up the side of this hill and kept bending over, looking at rocks.