Looking for an unbent nail.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Bixby unbent surprisingly in the next few minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference

Major Moresby unbent, to peer closely at the copies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

With the departure of the secretary he unbent slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference

Unlike her mother, the daughter had unbent considerably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Loner]

"The Sans unbent a little, didn't they?" commented Jerry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

He unbent his dark brow on hearing that I was an Englishman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832] Reference

There stood Helm, dead as a stone, but his knees were unbent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Monsieur unbent his brows and stretched himself on the chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Here was a fortunate moment; the deity of it unbent and smiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference

The mind of man must be frequently unbent, or it will be overset.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

When I explained further he unbent and said he would think it over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920] Reference

Rhavas unbent enough to add, "Perhaps even a bit better than that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

Even Miss Falconer unbent to the artist, as she persisted in calling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

Even the fossilized guards unbent, whirling with their raised weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nor Crystal Tears]

I didn't want to take off the coat but unbent enough to open my jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

Ships stood in the harbor, with their sails unbent and masts dismantled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rich Enough a tale of the times] Reference

'It was my English great-grandfather's,' Annais unbent enough to confide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

He is proceeding on all fours, with unbent knees, right up the sharp edge of the blade!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

I just wanted my photographs and disks safe, unbent and not falling out of their shoeboxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Bensen: Lighten Up: Believe!] Reference

Later, at luncheon, she unbent sufficiently to question Marjorie further regarding the try-out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Here was the place where he spent his leisure hours, where he unbent and became his normal self.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

The Bailie, however, cheered by Highland refreshment, presently unbent and had many things to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

My sister just walked into the dining room holding the floor attachment and an unbent coat hanger.    From Wordnik.com.  [meggie816 Diary Entry] Reference

They were certainly perfectly white long after we left Rio; they have not been either furled or unbent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Professor Sykes had unbent enough to compliment the curly-haired cadet for his lucid thinking and acute memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Pioneers] Reference

But shoulders were unbent by the burdens which they had borne joyously, and their feet went quickly as lovers 'to a tryst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

His dignity unbent enough to give her a nod of approval with the comment, ‘May I say your red dress is very becoming.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride]

Alan took it and saw that it wasn't a pebble, it was a rotted-out and dried-up fingertip, pierced with unbent paperclip wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

He was conscious, in that fraction of a second, that he must release his hold, or Arima's neck would be broken; so he unbent his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference

Ought we not to be willing to be bent or unbent any way? and if a bow is to "abide in strength," it must be unbent when it is not wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England] Reference

Her fancy endowed the firm hand with an unbent bow; then the figure seemed to pause in the chase, and listen for the baying of the hounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

When he had finished he read it to Wilson, who unbent from his antagonistic attitude towards poetry when he heard the subject of the verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference