What's the difference between bendy and lissome?

Bendy


Definition:

  • (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.

Lissome


Definition:

  • (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
  • (a.) Light; nimble; active.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pilic certainly did not like umpires and was a lean-boned and lissome athlete on court; off it he could be broodily dark and explosive.
  • (2) He looked up to see a lissome figure with gentle brown eyes that held a profundity of experience rarely encountered in someone of her age.
  • (3) Then it's off  out to treat the world to the sight of their lissom frames, youthful musculature and poreless, naturally lambent skin whose glow seems to reach out and greet the sun as a cousin.
  • (4) It’s also put together with a lissom confidence and a breeziness that more than compensates for a gossamer lightness when it comes to substance.” Hail, Caesar!
  • (5) Last year, Lebedev shut down another of his newspapers, the Moscow Korrespondent, after it published a story about Putin's alleged affair with a lissom Olympic gymnast.
  • (6) Inevitably, the Mediterranean sunlight on lissom flesh restores Rochefort's creative mojo.
  • (7) This was featured in TV documentaries, a half-fictional film, Scandal (1989), and the ghosted autobiographies of Christine Keeler, the lissom young woman whose naked form he chased around the pool at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire stately home, with its then owner Lord ("Bill") Astor.

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