chiefly British

Examples of bendy in a Sentence

the kids love to use bendy straws
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This is why drafting another edge defender in the first or second round is a logical assumption, whether a bendy pass rusher (Donovan Ezeiruaku), a physical three-down lineman (Nic Scourton) or a raw riser (Olu Oladejo). Ben Standig, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 This book light, $20 at Walmart, has a wide beam and bendy neck. Nora Colomer, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025 So there shouldn’t be too big of a discount for a 26-year-old, bendy edge player who had eight sacks and 17 QB hits in 2023 before missing all of 2024 with a non-contact knee injury. Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025 These polymers then juiced with other chemicals that give them different properties, to mold them into plastics that are bendy, plastics that are hard, plastics that are resistant to heat and other things. Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bendy

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bendy was in 1873

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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bendy. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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