Vocabulary Word
Word: bent
Definition: determined; Ex. bent on advancing in the business; N: natural talent or inclination
Definition: determined; Ex. bent on advancing in the business; N: natural talent or inclination
Sentences Containing 'bent'
said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that bent low over the shoemaking.
But, the question reminded him of his work, and he bent over it again.
With a weary sound that was not a sigh, nor a groan, he bent to work again, until the silence was again broken.
She stood, like a spirit, beside him, and he bent over his work.
The Doctor sat with his face turned away, and his eyes bent on the ground.
Her father sat silent, with his face bent down.
There was a screwing and complaining sound down below, and their bent figures were strained, as if by a weight.
The bench was turned towards the light, as it had been when he had seen the shoemaker at his work before, and his head was bent down, and he was very busy.
The Doctor looked at him for a moment half inquiringly, half as if he were angry at being spoken to and bent over his work again.
He bent over the golden head, and put the rosy lips to his, and folded her in his arms.
`Pray excuse me,'said I.`Under the circumstances, no.'``They exchanged looks, but bent their heads to me as I bent mine to them, and we parted without another word on either side.
He bent over the child, and laid her blooming cheek against his face.
It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words.
The prisoner bent over the paper, once more.''
They raised the unconscious figure, placed it on a litter they had brought to the door, and bent to carry it away.
Also the firm lines of the bent back and the crumpled forms of the front of the body.
This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it.
The young man, in reply, took up the chisel, bent it into the form of a horseshoe, and then as readily straightened it.
The ravisher stopped suddenly, his knees bent under him, and he fell with Teresa in his arms.
The countess bent her head, as if beneath a heavy wave of bitter thoughts.
The Count bowed, while Mademoiselle Danglars bent her head slightly.
The poor woman's head and arms fell; her legs bent under her, and she fell on her knees.
As for Monte Cristo, his head was bent down, his arms were powerless.
Danglars bent his head, which he meant to imply,``Very well.''
The old soldier of the Spanish Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain.
mused Miss Betsey, with her frown still bent upon the fire.
and bent his eyes upon me, as if he would have burnt me up with them.
For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot.
He went, and bent down and looked, and says: "It's a dead man.
He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands.
As if a man bent on felony would slam his door so as to wake a household.
Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but without result.
His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.
With which he took the fork from my unresisting hand, and bent over the gridiron, as if his whole attention were concentrated on it.
The sound of her voice had not reached me, but he bent his head as if he listened to her, and then said: 'Let you stay with your uncle?
When I at last inquired on what his thoughts were so bent, he replied: 'On what's afore me, Mas'r Davy; and over yon.'
Miss Dartle softly touched her, and bent down her head to whisper, but she would not hear a word.
They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint.
The official badge, called the Bent, is a watch key in the shape of the bent of a trestle (see picture).
The symbols on the Bent are an ancient form of Greek letters.
"Bent" refers to the observable bend of the zygomatic arches in the skull.
A crunch begins with lying face up on the floor with knees bent.
There was a dispute about killing these men after they had been entertained but those bent on vengeance prevailed.
(If the nucleus is not yet bent, then it is likely a myelocyte.)
The title is clearly of a positivist bent.
The mast first bent and then snapped at roughly half its height.
Bent grass is used for the fairways and for the greens.
Dexter
Dexter is the giant octopus that is bent on ruling Quetzo.
Pipes were removed, bent, and stepped on.
The player controls Fay or Bent depending the situation.