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Example sentences for "downbent"

Lexicographically close words:
dowghter; dowie; dowitcher; down; downa; downcast; downe; downed; downfal; downfall
  1. Out of the narrow street on the left were streaming a number of cloaked figures, silent and downbent as though intent only upon making their way through the storm.

  2. We shuffled along between these warders, with downbent heads, perilously close to the rear of the procession.

  3. At the cry for help, the greater number of the ronins wheeled about and charged upon us, with the rain splashing upon their downbent helmet brims.

  4. As I flung up my downbent head the sun-rays glittered on the wet silks and bared steel of a band of samurais that came charging out of the street on the right.

  5. In compliance with the request of the Prince, I walked behind him as if lost in meditation, my head downbent and eyes narrowed to a line.

  6. English, but always faintly aware of that still figure and of that downbent face.

  7. She remained worshipfully downbent over the wriggling, chuckling baby until its parents reappeared.

  8. He was in the act of setting on a pan of bacon when, without the slightest warning, a bullet cut the knot of the loose neckerchief under his downbent chin.

  9. Olvir, and he pressed his lips to her downbent head.

  10. Blake drew back from her, his head downbent in sudden despondency.

  11. Blake came slowly into the room through the doorway behind them, his head downbent as if he were pondering a problem.

  12. He got to his feet, ignoring the slow shaking of Leaver's downbent head.

  13. She came closer still, standing before him with downbent head, and speaking low, through the veiling, silken gauze.

  14. Though the face of the second woman was downbent and her dress all of black, it was enough for my enlightenment that the covering of her graceful head was a Spanish mantilla.

  15. There is no need," I replied, my gaze downbent upon her cheek.

  16. He looked up quickly into Ross's downbent face, his own rather grim.

  17. She looked up into Cleek's downbent face with wide eyes.

  18. Slowly with head a little downbent he walked out, up the way she had come; then around the corner a short distance to the stables over which he had his room.

  19. He could perceive, also, as plainly as if he were in that other room, the deep ardent eyes of the prince downbent upon the blither ones, the commanding figure of the man near that other slender, almost illusive presence.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downbent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.