bends

/ bɛndz /

plural noun

1. functioning as singular or plural a nontechnical name for decompression sickness

Example Sentences

He pressed pause and then sang the song’s first verse to me, emphasizing how Clark bends the word “blind.”

From Los Angeles Times

Investigators found the car he was driving had been travelling at excessive speed as it negotiated bends before it then left the road and hit a tree.

From BBC

With the psychological deftness of a cult leader, Trump is able to infiltrate the shadowed corners of America’s consciousness, casting a sinister silhouette that bends reality into a fevered hallucination of chaos and bloodlust.

From Salon

Route 191 bends east here, passing by blooming cotton fields nourished by the Gila River before the terrain becomes rockier and steeper.

From Los Angeles Times

I can’t say much more than if Trump wins my life will go on even as he bends the country towards a nationalistic brutal authoritarianism.

From Salon