How to Use bendy in a Sentence

bendy

adjective
  • Soft and bendy and fresh in the right places, a little char in the right places.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Paige Fumo Fox, Daily Southtown, 5 May 2017
  • Fidgets can range from a bit of putty, to stress balls, to bendy toys.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 May 2017
  • Wrapping an ear, a bendy and floppy thing, is like putting a sweater on a fish.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
  • This book light, $20 at Walmart, has a wide beam and bendy neck.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Top picks include this bendy, palm-size Poco, which curves to hit the G-spot.
    — Malia Griggs, SELF, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Jumping from the far end of the branch would reduce the gap, but the bendy tip would be less stable.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The Knife was in fact quite cheap, surprisingly bendy and light.
    — Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • The cookies were more bendy than chewy, an unpleasant hard-but-soft texture.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
  • Like much of their bodies, babies' knees are bendy and not as firm as older children's knees.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • That means a head that weighs what a human head would weigh, moving on a neck that's about as bendy as a real neck.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
  • And now that weird kind of muscle has inspired a bendy inflatable robot.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The researchers used machine learning to make a map of those bendy reflections.
    — Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The bendier ones like lead or aluminum are definitely not stretchy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Flex—which has bendy dividers and comes with a little snack/condiment container.
    — Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Many inventions are intended to solve problems–like the bendy straw.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The latest trend is flip phones with a far more limited display on the front and a super-tall, bendy screen on the inside.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The set comes with five realistic bird options to hand from the bendy wire and a suction replacement.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Gummy, bendy, jelly products are in for 2026.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In an endoscopy, the doctor uses a narrow, bendy tube with a lighted camera on the tip to explore your colon.
    — Rebecca Joy Stanborough, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
  • With hinges and moving parts, the surface under the display might have some gaps in it, especially at the bendy parts.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • My biggest complaint is with the precariously thin and bendy neck, which could be improved.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 13 July 2022
  • Those TikTok videos of bendy chocolate bars aren’t just a quirky internet moment.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Outsize and awkward, its bendy waist looking like a tattered accordion between cars, the bus prowled one of the city’s widest streets.
    — Annalee Newitz, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
  • These weirdly bendy legs would essentially be a second pair of arms for the robot to use in guiding itself around the spaces.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
  • One day, graphene might enable all sorts of cool gadgets -- from bendy phones to magazines that connect to the Internet.
    — Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The frames are on the petite side, so bigger kids may need to size up, but the bendy arms help compensate, splaying out slightly if necessary.
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2023
  • Instead of copying your yoga instructor or your wildly bendy friend, try the seven moves listed below.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
  • To produce ground vanilla, the beans are dried to remove the moisture that gives them their flexible, bendy texture, then ground into a fine powder.
    — Jane Black, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, the character was 17 and owed his bendy superpowers to eating a mythical fruit.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025

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