[
UK
/bˈɛndɪd/
]
[ US /ˈbɛndɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛndɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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used of the back and knees; stooped
on bended knee
with bent (or bended) back
How To Use bended In A Sentence
- They sat in a circle, their sketch books on their laps or bended knees, though none of them seemed to be paying attention to their work.
- The TV network begged her on bended knee to return to the program.
- Then the Greeks they groaned and quivered, And they knelt, and moaned, and shivered, As the plunging waters met them, And splashed and overset them; And they call in their emergence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrowbones are bended, And they think the world is ended. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
- But the fpear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his fword lopped off his head, as it bended in death. The Poems of Ossian
- She gripped her Beretta tightly in her hand and jumped nimbly through the skylight, hitting the catwalk with bended knees. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
- I bet you beg for it on bended knees!
- I knew this wasn't the case -- but if women believed that marriage meant the gift of a spouse who made a home for them, a "helpmate" who nurtured them, who made a social life possible, a mother who took care of their children, and a nurseful listener who was charming in uncharming situations -- if that was the case, then women propose on bended knee faster than you can say "diary-of-a-mad-housewife. Susie Bright: Are You a Marryin' Fool?
- He proposed to her on bended knee.
- on bended knee
- Forget the traditional methods for proposing marriage - the bended knee, the skywriting, the Jumbotron query at the local ballpark.