How to Use bendy in a Sentence

bendy

adjective
  • Soft and bendy and fresh in the right places, a little char in the right places.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Top picks include this bendy, palm-size Poco, which curves to hit the G-spot.
    — Malia Griggs, SELF, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Jumping from the far end of the branch would reduce the gap, but the bendy tip would be less stable.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 May 2017
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 May 2017
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 May 2017
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 May 2017
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Paige Fumo Fox, Daily Southtown, 5 May 2017
  • Wrapping an ear, a bendy and floppy thing, is like putting a sweater on a fish.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
  • It’s Reed Richards, bendy leader of the Fantastic Four!
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Millions have the same 'bendy body' disease as my daughter.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The latest trend is flip phones with a far more limited display on the front and a super-tall, bendy screen on the inside.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Like much of their bodies, babies' knees are bendy and not as firm as older children's knees.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • The researchers used machine learning to make a map of those bendy reflections.
    — Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The cookies were more bendy than chewy, an unpleasant hard-but-soft texture.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
  • The kids' menu is serviceable, though drinks (with a bendy straw and lidded plastic cup), are not included in the $4-$5 price.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The kids' menu is serviceable, though drinks (with a bendy straw and lidded plastic cup), are not included in the $4-$5 price.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • He’s not a super flexible, bendy edge rusher like Von Miller or even a Robert Quinn.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • With hinges and moving parts, the surface under the display might have some gaps in it, especially at the bendy parts.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In an endoscopy, the doctor uses a narrow, bendy tube with a lighted camera on the tip to explore your colon.
    — Rebecca Joy Stanborough, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The set comes with five realistic bird options to hand from the bendy wire and a suction replacement.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And now that weird kind of muscle has inspired a bendy inflatable robot.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
  • And now that weird kind of muscle has inspired a bendy inflatable robot.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Outsize and awkward, its bendy waist looking like a tattered accordion between cars, the bus prowled one of the city’s widest streets.
    — Annalee Newitz, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
  • Many inventions are intended to solve problems–like the bendy straw.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
  • One day, graphene might enable all sorts of cool gadgets -- from bendy phones to magazines that connect to the Internet.
    — Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • One day, graphene might enable all sorts of cool gadgets -- from bendy phones to magazines that connect to the Internet.
    — Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • A great base, like bendy waves (whether just-rolled-out-of-bed natural or simulated), makes a style that much cooler.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The bendier ones like lead or aluminum are definitely not stretchy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2019

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