bent-up

When we got there, Peter was climbing out of the bent-up Lotus, which had acquired roughly the shape of a crescent around the tree trunk.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 18 2010

To start with, I suppose you could say that along with the bent-up targa frame, a few other scars and the odd rust spot on the deck and stainless steel, she is looking slightly weather-beaten.

True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010

I clung to that bent-up old tree for dear life just a yard or two away.

Dragon Came to Galveston to Die 2009

I clung to that bent-up old tree for dear life just a yard or two away.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

Righty talk radio will follow the usual pattern: the host will lie and twist and then take calls from the chorus of bent-up venom.

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

If he chooses to remain openly gay he should take a lover, move to Cuba and write incredible twisted, bent-up, love tattered, I-misdirected-miliions-of-souls poetry.

Think Progress » Haggard Confesses: ‘I Am a Deciever and a Liar’ 2006

I turned to find Bernard squatting beside me, trying to fit the two of us under a bent-up old umbrella.

Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995

Sitting on his sleeping furs, with his feet on a floor mat and his elbows leaning on his bent-up knees, he held his bowed head and felt an agony of shame.

The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

They put one leg in the stocks, handcuffed me and put my arms in another set of stocks so that I was in a bent-up position.

Terry, Ross R. 1977

She had a bent-up spoon that she cooked stuff in for the poison people.

Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 1965