He stood with his back to them, bending over the fire.

Zurito stood beside the table, bending over where the doctor was working.

But it did not bend yet, and instead the machine lurched when it came to the bending part.

Holding the rod far out toward the uprooted tree and sloshing backward in the current, Nick worked the trout, plunging, the rod bending alive, out of the danger of the weeds into the open river.