How to use in-sentence of “bends”:
+ When the muscle shortens, it bends the elbow and twists the forearm so that the palm faces up.
+ All metals get harder when a smith hammers or bends them.
+ The river flows faster on the outside of a curve, and the fast water erodes the outside bends of a river channel by hydraulic action and abrasion.
+ If plotted on a 2-dimensional plane, the wormhole bends the plane, like folding a paper, so that the two ends would be touching.
+ When the eclipse ends, Ozai bends lightning straight at Zuko, but Zuko simply redirects it.

Example sentences of “bends”:
+ Each has a style which McCartney felt reflected their personalities: McCartney’s playing included string bends similar to his lead guitar work on “Another Girl” from the “Help!” album; Harrison’s was melodic with slides yet technically advanced and Lennon’s was rhythmic, stinging and had the heaviest distortion.
+ Certain observations, like the orbit of Mercury or the way light from distant sources bends as it passes a star, cannot be explained by the physics of 1900.
+ If a smith hammers or bends a piece of metal that is already work-hardened, it will crack and break.
+ This is more common at bends or meanders.
+ It makes a wider valley that often has some large bends as the river flows around the hills, always following the lowest way.
+ The sucrase bends the sucrose, and strains the bond between the glucose and fructose.
+ Because she bends back so far during the move, the term in Japanese has come to mean anything having to do with bending backwards.
+ The discovery that our Sun bends the light of distant objects when their light passes close to it was evidence that the general theory of relativity was correct.
+ When a black hole passes between us and a source of light, the light bends around the black hole creating a mirror image.
+ Each has a style which McCartney felt reflected their personalities: McCartney's playing included string bends similar to his lead guitar work on "Another Girl" from the "Help!" album; Harrison's was melodic with slides yet technically advanced and Lennon's was rhythmic, stinging and had the heaviest distortion.
+ Certain observations, like the orbit of Mercury or the way light from distant sources bends as it passes a star, cannot be explained by the physics of 1900.
+ The Congo flows mostly west from Kisangani just below the falls, then slowly bends southwest, passing by Mbandaka, joining with the Ubangi River, and running into the Pool Malebo.
+ When a curtsey is very formal, the girl/woman bends the knees outward, often sweeping one foot behind her.
+ A bow is when a person bends their body forward from the waist in order to greet someone or show respect for them.
+ The presence of an exo-planet rotating around that closer star bends the light of the star farther away periodically.
+ It flows west, then bends to the southwest and passes through Bangui.
+ The electron cloud of an atom bends the X-rays slightly.
+ Peanuts grow by starting out as an above ground flower that, due to its heavy weight, bends towards the ground.
