What's the difference between bendy and lithe?

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.

Lithe


Definition:

  • (v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
  • (a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
  • (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
  • (a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is not as lithe as he was, however, and he had to leave the field immediately after injuring his back in the act of scoring.
  • (2) Long before the Syria vote, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper complained of misogyny, and not just from the Mail , which was more interested in Kendall’s “lithe figure” than her politics.
  • (3) The acclaim for Riva and Amour are exceptional in an industry that has always preferred its mainstream stars to be fresh of face, lithe of figure and delivering their lines in English.
  • (4) He bounces into the room unaccompanied, a little stiff in the lower back perhaps, but otherwise breezy and lithe.
  • (5) While Attitude describes him as "tall and lithe and tanned with big brown eyes and a sexual charisma that envelops you like a kidnapper's sack over your head", the Daily Mail reckons Cooper is the "new Mr Darcy".
  • (6) Evolution of H2, however, occurs during growth at lithe intensities as low as 50 to 100 ft-c (540 to 1,080 lux), i.e., under conditions of energy limitation.
  • (7) The present case is the first one to expectorate bronchial lith without marked pulmonary diseases.
  • (8) This appears to be another patient with oligo-cone trichromasy (general cone dysfunction without achromatopsia), as described by Van Lith.
  • (9) He may be lithe and louche and blessed with a gossamer touch but he is fearless too, not just decorating this team but driving it on too.
  • (10) While recording from the statocyst nerve of Homarus americanus, we deflected the statolith hairs from the "rest" position they assumed after the lith was removed.
  • (11) Powerfully built, but lithe and flexible, Grosics was a key figure in Hungary's "Mighty Magyars" squad from 1947 to 1962.
  • (12) Ismene Brown, Daily Telegraph, 2001 "Liquid, lithe choreography that can draw the spectator into a spellbinding world of heightened sensation and scintillating body sculpture."
  • (13) A lithe and lethal finisher, he scored prolifically for Wolfsburg and Dinamo Zagreb before joining Bayern, for whom he struck on his debut to help win the German Super Cup.
  • (14) His camera has a tendency to linger on its subjects, their lithe, young, often barely clothed bodies lit with lush tones.
  • (15) Proteoglycan fractions isolated from cartilage extracted lith 0.15M-KCl separated into two main components on large-pore-gel electrophoresis with mobilities greater than those of proteoglycans extracted with 2.0M-CaCl2.
  • (16) The show was well reviewed by Rolling Stone : “No powerhouse band, no impossibly lithe dancing, no masterful guitar fireworks.
  • (17) The hotel is teeming with security: lithe gentlemen in loose slacks and dark glasses, trying not to kill the birthday vibe.
  • (18) He's stiff-backed and lithe, stamping his hardened feet on the ground.
  • (19) The sputum lith, 1 to 3 mm in diameter, were examined by microanalyser and by the method of X-ray diffraction, which revealed that the lith was composed of calcium carbonate and calcite in crystalline style.
  • (20) Sport benefits everyone, even those of us who don’t have a lithe, size 10 figure – indeed, us most of all.