(a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(2) It's bendy, has no pavements and the speed limit is 60mph.
(3) Let them stop telling us about the bendiness of our bananas, stop telling us how many hours we should work in a week, and concentrate on the big-ticket issues like climate change, like making sure that the lights stay on in the European energy market.
(4) Don’t be surprised if your Instagram feed is filled with photos of bendy people twisting their bodies into elaborate shapes today.
(5) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(6) You do have to handle it with care when it’s full of hot coffee, but we found the bendiness to be a massive plus since it can easily be squished into a full bag.
(7) His pragmatism is so bendy that I’d even prefer him to have a principle that I disagreed with than to stomach more of his PR sincerity.
(8) Unlike the other cups on this list it isn’t rigid, but bendy like rubber.
(9) I drank four times more on Saturday, but I was at my pre-birthday dinner party with chums and we all rather overdid it, which helped us to forget our impairments: irregular heartbeats, poorly knees, high blood pressure, Sjögren's syndrome, indigestion, arthritis, un-bendy back, tinnitus, trigger-finger and mild Murray Valley fever virus.
(10) That uber-gag supplies a mind-bendy frame for Acaster’s deliciously pernickety comedy .
(11) We've also got some goats having the time of their lives on a piece of bendy metal which has been positioned in their field.
(12) Why didn’t I shag a builder, or a bendy yoga dullard?
(13) Slippery and more bendy than existing notes, but just as easy to fold.
(14) The Labour mayoral candidate, whose "bendy buses" were scrapped by Johnson when he was elected mayor in 2008, has made clear that has no intention of increasing the fleet of new hybrid hop-on-hop-off buses.
(15) And on 1 February 2019, a man dressed as a sensible pirate will stand at the foot of an obelisk in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and blow an enchanted bendy horn, a horn only to be blown in Britain’s hour of need.
(16) Perez and Alvaro Pereira are seeing a lot of the ball, the former showcasing a couple of needlessly bendy, but very attractive, crossfield passes.
(17) And when that bendy horn is blown, as if by magic, all the straight bananas in Brexit Britain will suddenly bend once more, never to be straight again.
(18) "You tell me 'I want blue and highly conductive and bendy' and we can make it."
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short Bendy Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui achieves a high-wire balancing act between different media, ideas and angles, at the same time as juggling the eclectic styles of his diverse performers.
(20) This year will see a fascinating struggle for dominance between the Kindle, the Sony reader, Plastic Logic's Que, the Skiff Reader and LG's 19-inch bendy e-journal.
Flexible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
(a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
(a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(3) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
(4) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(5) With improved monitoring, the use of smaller, more flexible endoscopes, and more experience, routine general anesthesia in children less than 3 years of age, as recommended in the past, may not be mandatory.
(6) Flexibility and integration of approaches may be advantageous and hypnosis, including regression and reframing, may be especially powerful in the treatment of phobics.
(7) The drug orientation and the DNA orientation (reflecting flexibility) are observed to vary differently and nonmonotonically with binding ratio, suggesting specific binding and varying site geometries.
(8) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(9) Flexibility is essential so that the appropriate technique or agent can be selected for a particular pediatric ICU patient.
(10) The flexible adaptation of psychosomatic aspects to the current needs of dermatologists was found most important.
(11) Lenses with inserted flexible open loops (e.g., Dubroff) have only been implanted in small series, but the results have been quite good.
(12) The presence of aspartic acid and asparagine residues in other conformations, such as those in partially denatured, conformationally flexible regions, may lead to more rapid succinimide formation and contribute to the degradation of the molecule.
(13) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(14) We interpret the high resistance of this protein to urea as reflecting a reduced flexibility of its structure at normal temperatures which should be correlated to the thermophilic origin of this protein.
(15) We argue that the power and flexibility of computer simulation as a technique for dealing with uncertainty and variability is especially appropriate in the case of HIV and AIDS.
(16) A one-way analysis of variance showed that there were no significant differences in flexibility of the five fixation constructs (P greater than .05).
(17) All patients with distal polyps detected during flexible sigmoidoscopy underwent colonoscopy.
(18) A small helix is identified at the carboxy terminus of A2 which emerges through the central pore of the B subunits and probably comes into contact with the membrane upon binding, whereas the A1 subunit is flexible with respect to the B pentamer.
(19) These observations strongly suggest that (i) GCN4 specifically recognizes the central base pair, (ii) the optimal half-site for GCN4 binding is ATGAC, not ATGAG, and (iii) GCN4 is a surprisingly flexible protein that can accommodate the insertion of a single base pair in the center of its compact binding site.
(20) New laws to give parents more flexible leave and strong commitments to family-friendly working hours will be among the headline measures.