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Example sentences for "bent forward"

  • She is intently engaged in looking at her shells, and has not yet seen Juan; her body is bent forward slightly, the expression of the face denoting curiosity and thought.

  • The left hand sustains the head of Ishmael, the right is extended to the pitcher which stands at the side of the group; the head is bent forward considerably, eyes fixed on those of the boy, countenance expressing anxiety and hope.

  • His body is bent forward, feet separated thirty inches, eyes fixed on Warren, countenance expressing energy and decision.

  • Then he bent forward from a chair on the other side of a small writing-table.

  • And he had no sooner shut the door than Tressady bent forward.

  • The trim lady-secretary, however, bent forward with an air of annoyance.

  • He bent forward again, all shyness gone now, his brown face aglow.

  • The young man's face flamed with passion as he bent forward.

  • He bent forward, resting his fat podgy hand on her knee.

  • He bent forward, leaning on his hands, looking her steadily in the face for the first time.

  • He bent forward, putting some coal on the fire, breaking it up into a cheerful blaze.

  • I seized the graven hilt, bent forward in my chair, and raised the Friend's Sword high above my head.

  • I bent forward, and the dying light of the match touched that other face.

  • As I spoke I bent forward, seized the table by its legs, and raised it, and concentrated all the wrath, resentment and detestation that had boiled in me for half an hour into the force with which I dashed it forward against Blenheim's face.

  • I confess I experienced a certain thrill, entirely new to me, as I bent forward with my arms on my knees and my head lowered to hide my face.

  • He bent forward, tapping his forefinger against the desk, and his eyes were like gimlets boring into mine.

  • But Serracauld, whose glance had never left her own, bent forward quickly, looking up into her face.

  • He bent forward, looking into Alice's face, without visible emotion; rather with the air of peremptory common sense which had so often helped her through the difficulties of her life.

  • He bent forward, his hands on his knees, staring at Manvers.

  • He bent forward, and looked intently into the Bishop's face.

  • She took a chair near the open door and bent forward with an air of attention that was disquieting.

  • I bent forward, earnestly waiting for her words, knowing that here lay her great offending.

  • He bent forward again, his long thin frame and boyish bright-complexioned face making an effective contrast to the squire's bronzed and wrinkled squareness.

  • After a minute he bent forward, peering through the darkness.

  • He bent forward quickly, caught her hands, held them for an instant to his lips in a convulsive grasp, dropped them, and was gone.

  • He bent forward, stammering incoherent words of assent and gratitude, he knew not what.

  • Then he bent forward, holding the flame close to the face of the man lying before him.

  • They dropped the muzzles of their guns, bent forward noiselessly, and deep silence followed.

  • Bent forward in the saddle, with face hidden in the mane of the horse, he continued to urge with a nagaika the stallion, which seemed not to touch the ground.

  • They had, in fact, bent forward in the saddles, and were moving on, and immediately after them the dragoon regiments and the whole line of battle.

  • Nikolai staggered from the effort and bent forward; that instant the Cossack struck him such a blow on the neck that he dropped as if struck by lightning.

  • All other dotted lines must be bent forward, and care taken to keep the bends exactly on the dotted lines.

  • Cut all of the heavy lines of the stairs and bend backward all of the dotted lines except that along the flap G at the bottom of the side which must be bent forward that it may lie flat on the ground.

  • As Wilkins spoke he bent forward, and rested his head on his hand, with a peculiar smile upon his lips.

  • She slid from his arms, then placed the staff in his hands, and he bent forward on it as if already forgetful of the scene just passed.

  • With as cheerful an air as he could assume, he approached him, and laying a hand upon each shoulder, as he stood behind his chair, bent forward, and looked up in the thoughtful eyes gazing on the fire.

  • As he bent forward to inquire her wishes, she threw aside the veil, which concealed her features, and revealed to the boy's bewildered gaze the most dazzling, beautiful face he had ever beheld.

  • Look"--he bent forward, resting his chest against the table, and stretched out his hand toward me.

  • And with that he brushed the porter aside, bent forward, lifted the wreck from the chair and with his sturdy strength carried him up the steps and to the relinquished section.

  • He bent forward again, resting his elbows on his knees and clutching his temples in his palms as if utterly given over to despair.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after saying; always made; and that; because every; being still; bent double; bent down; bent forward; bent over; bent upon; called him; commence operations; each end; each pupil; geographical discovery; good specimen; him out; hollow tone; human passions; internal heat; medical practice; safe retreat; second lieutenant; then called; then once; what can