Tried to support his weight on a bending cane.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Most of the movements which we call bending the spine are really movements of other joints which connect the body or head with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Health] Reference

Good thought, as wrist bending is the cause of many, sometimes painful, problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take the Trout Quiz!] Reference

Genre-bending is a popular descriptor these days but it does not do this novel justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader reviews of The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney.] Reference

Thus, I have to ask, why does Lawful Evil believe in bending the rules when Lawful Good does?.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Are Not A Unique And Beautiful Snowflake] Reference

I see no point in bending the facts as we know them, but an author of fiction can explore the idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing The Falco Series by Lindsey Davis] Reference

Once you have decided to stay you can begin bending that rule based on your own comfort zone. dondon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caveats to Potential Retirees in Mexico] Reference

So how would the Senate bill fare in bending the cost curve from the perspective of the federal budget?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will the Senate health bill tame costs?] Reference

Second, does she believe in bending the rules (DNC rules for FL and MI) just for narrow and personal gain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blitzer: A touching moment in today's Clinton interview] Reference

Folks need to remember the display of will Albright and Clinton showed in bending the UN to their will in the 90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Keep On Keeping On] Reference

In fact I wouldn't mind having even more inputs, which for me, equate to increased agility in bending teh computarz to my will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The OpenOffice Mouse - Boing Boing] Reference

He is, of course, known to be conservative, but he has shown some restraint until recently in bending statistics to his political beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’] Reference

For some reason or another bending is the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

It’s a significant factor in bending the cost curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

Take air bending, which is being able to manipulate air and wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pererro] Reference

'Mr Dunbar recalls bending down to grab his son's hand and being struck in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Please, quit with the rule bending, that is what got the country into the current mess it is in right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats' late night session falls short on MI, FL delegations] Reference

Gardening in soil is fine for younger folk, as we age containers mean less stooping and bending, that is nice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

The CBO says the excise tax is by far the factor that’s going to do the most in bending the long-term cost curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

He had sat listening for hours, mostly in silence, a deep brooding expression bending his ragged brows together in a stern frown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Storm Country] Reference

It is going to take a little "bending" on their part too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks] Reference

I so thought that was going to become an existential 'bending' and 'there is no spoon' thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive Monday: The Spoon] Reference

Some of bonsai's basic techniques, such as bending branches and pruning, are similar to arborsculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives] Reference

I mean, there's a kind of bending and cracking of the whole st -- the whole state and the whole universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World] Reference

The big gimmick is "bending," which combines martial arts with magical manipulation of the four elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Review: Steamboy] Reference

Now, if a means of "bending" all incoming visible wavelengths around an object, it would become invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liszt Learning] Reference

In addition, the style of "bending" for each element is based on a specific real-world martial arts style.    From Wordnik.com.  [M. Night Shyamalan Talks About Avatar: The Last Airbender « FirstShowing.net] Reference

The Republicans were kind of bending over backwards to be gracious, as is normally the custom at this kind of a transition point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2009] Reference

On the possibility of "bending" but not of "breaking" the enemy's trench line, 145.    From Wordnik.com.  [1914] Reference

Post operative interventions include avoiding activities that will increase intraocular pressure such as bending and lifting heavy objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference