unbend a bow.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

unbend the mind from absorbing too much information.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

They call me Goddess, Angel, and court me with dainties fit for queens 'tables and farfetched wines such as unbend the soul from cares.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference

Slowly I unbend her arm, peel off the bandage gently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traveler's Wife]

But who did not unbend a little on that historic day?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference

Something, or a Somebody, to unbend his brows a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

I never saw my aunt unbend more systematically to anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

"I expect the toffee-nosed bugger can't unbend even as far as that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Every living thing]

How is it ready at every breath to unbend and let down its intension!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

Even when Servilia gave him her widest, shiest smile, he did not unbend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

Claudia remained tortuously polite, refusing to unbend and spill gossip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

That did not lead her to unbend, or to relax her vigilance for a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diuturnity's Dawn]

Myste could and would unbend her rigid ethics in order to ensure that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Valor]

Brechdan must not unbend, not even when Elwych returned after three years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ensign Flandry]

She had the body halfway out, but the legs were stiff and wouldn't unbend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Up]

They felt they must unbend after the severe mental tension of the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

I want him to unbend and call me Lord Rand again, he thought with amazement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

My joints were frozen with terror — I couldn't unbend my fingers to drop it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight]

Yea, it has made the mightiest to unbend, and brought them bowing before its altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference

Proud men never unbend until their supremacy is acknowledged through your servility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

Madeline Payne, after studiously ignoring the two men for some days, began to unbend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

Not many could unbend their minds over the tomes he gathered for this third collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950] Reference

He makes clunky attempts to unbend from his natural dignity, and that endears him, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Obama: Our Plumber-in-Chief] Reference

The Arab might unbend to his people if it so pleased him, but he kept them well in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

But Mahony, stooping to decipher the names Ellen had written on the slate, did not unbend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

The hind legs of the animal are twice as long as the front ones, and unbend like a spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

But that the Prince could unbend on occasion is revealed by another notification to his subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

It is sweet to unbend oneself at the proper opportunity, and this was the proper opportunity for Mrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

The flight out of Dallas, I had to put my carry on under the seat and had no room to unbend my knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

Willy Horse acted as waiter, Mrs. Shafto declining to unbend to the extent of waiting on "them varmints.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference

I wish most sincerely you was Here to amuse yourself with it, and to unbend your mind from the cares of State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 April 1777] Reference

He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life, the Universe, and Everything]

He could not unbend among them, and talk to them familiarly of their prowess, and of the good cause, as Henri did.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Vend�e] Reference

She did unbend so far at last as to light a fire in the stove, but she let it be clearly understood that it was not for his benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

Then the other two occupants of the house were left to themselves and might unbend from their rigid surveillance for a little while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

She shoved the antenna down a little too forcefully, then had to unbend the slim wire before she could slip the phone into her purse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot And Bothered]

You begin to wonder at what time during the day it commenced to unbend, and if you have had that melancholy, damp appearance many hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference