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bend down

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bend down (third-person singular simple present bends down, present participle bending down, simple past and past participle bent down)

To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.

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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. Boris Pasternak

He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes, especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man. Ernst Röhm

The moon draws back its waters from the shore. By the lake's edge, I see a silver swan, And she is what I would. In this light air, Lost opposites bend down - Sing of that nothing of which all is made, Or listen into silence, like a god. Theodore Roethke

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. Libba Bray

To bend down for money is OK, but to bow is not. Avner Strauss

Angels bend down their wings to a seeker of knowledge. Moroccan Proverb

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