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    Use "bent on" in a sentence

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    bent on


    1. Obviously, not all of the tax collectors were hell-bent on wickedness


    2. Gonzar told her tale of an army of intelligent dactyls breeding in the depths of the Ttharmine that were coming out bent on world domination any day


    3. I bent on my knees and'


    4. The three white boys, while hell bent on completing their


    5. That’s not something we invented, that was done in Brancetrabble’s labs in the 45th when Lbront Nevn came storming out into the East Trenst Basin bent on conquest


    6. are bent on evil: They practice


    7. What else could have kept them from coming out here bent on conquest?"


    8. "Then Lbront Nevn was discovered in the 45th century and they came out of their isolation bent on conquest


    9. “The professor is hell bent on going on the tour and there’s just


    10. “So you’re still bent on your trek to Columbia?” she said as she kept focusing on the bowl and her stirring of the pancake flour

    11. In the following book, therefore, I shall endeavour to explain, first, what are the necessary expenses of the sovereign or commonwealth; and which of those expenses ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society ; and which of them, by that of some particular part ouly, or of some particular members of the society: secondly, what are the different methods in which the whole society may be made to contribute towards defraying the expenses incumbent on the whole society ; and what are the principal advantages and inconveniencies of each of those methods : and thirdly, what are the reasons and causes which have induced almost all modern governments to mortgage some part of this revenue, or to contract debts; and what have been the effects of those debts upon the real wealth, the annual produce of the land and labour of the society


    12. She was recumbent on a surgical couch


    13. She was recumbent on a couch, completely motionless, until she raised her head


    14. Scott was still recumbent on the ship’s couch, the interface array gone


    15. Recumbent on a bed of steel-like metal (which was really only a rectangular block on the floor)


    16. The pedestrians seemed hell bent on bashing their way to the front of the queue with their trolleys and elbows


    17. In the first place, the SAP were issued with six-shot revolvers for many decades, and thus the poor policeman had to use 50% of his ammunition as warning shots? How silly is that? Practically speaking, what do you do when a man comes at you with a knife? Do you really have time to fire three warning shots? And the warning shots should be fired deliberately (read slowly), with much shouting to convince the criminal hell bent on murdering you to cease his attack


    18. With the power given to him by Boddaert's remains, Evaert set out on a campaign of butchery and destruction, bent on conquering all of Boddaert's lands, and it was only the intervention of Bawsen, the fabled fighter from Badachro, which finally put an end to his tyranny


    19. There is no question, however, that such perception(s) often provide irrational motives for individuals bent on committing some arbitrarily violent action for its own sake


    20. Especially as it was about to be performed by a very large copper bent on revenge

    21. During this period, the new boyfriend moved into the house and Tiny, unable to control himself, violated the order, entering through a window he knew only too well as he had installed it, and up from the basement came a wild man, bent on revenge


    22. Why did I do it? Was I bent on serving my masters? On pursuing their own interest even when they did not command me? Because I loved them and wanted what was best for them, at my own expense or not? How often do we build motivations around our actions, ideas of who we are, built after the fact? I don't know why


    23. I created a society of people who were devoted believers, not so much bent on destruction and killing in the name of their gods, but obedient, unremarkable, and so predictable


    24. This caused the gradual weakening within the movement, opening the way for intruders who seemed bent on competing with, even destroying it, if necessary, or capable


    25. Poor Faith, so anxiously bent on retrieving the situation in regard to the church, had caught him in one of his terrible moods


    26. Some of these people were stronger, fiercer and more bent on conquest than


    27. Bent on revenge, the Suizos attacked his army near the city and routed them


    28. was the case of the evil school marm who was hell bent on sabotaging the keenness for


    29. 22 And the king said, It is incumbent on us to make him great, to elevate him and to do to him all the good which you shall command us; and at that time the king sent to Abram silver and gold and precious stones in abundance, together with cattle, men servants and maid servants; and the king ordered Abram to be brought, and he sat in the court of the king's house, and the king greatly exalted Abram on that night


    30. 63 And Jacob said, It is incumbent on me to give all this, since I have seen your face, so that you still live in peace

    31. There are, however, environmental and political groups that seem hell bent on the destruction of these industries and our economy


    32. You are bent on knowledge, I am not


    33. were together, I was so hell bent on hating Jack, that I enjoyed being


    34. He’s hell bent on doing that for you


    35. “Why weren’t we moving? What about the witch that was chasing after us, hell-bent on destroying us?”


    36. within, hell bent on procreation


    37. became the wedding garb of a democratized church, bent on preparing men and in


    38. 22 And the king said It is incumbent on us to make him great to elevate him and to do to him all the good which you shall command us; and at that time the king sent to Abram silver and gold and precious stones in abundance together with cattle men servants and maid servants; and the king ordered Abram to be brought and he sat in the court of the king's house and the king greatly exalted Abram on that night


    39. 63 And Jacob said It is incumbent on me to give all this since I have seen your face so that you still live in peace


    40. That he was so bent on being the center of attention he wanted to be the bride and groom at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral

    41. They had been content to warden us as prey and playthings before that, but they became bent on the extermination of all the gods and intelligent peoples of Kellaran


    42. Jesus’s face was beaming, He then turned to me and said, "He who is bent on saving his life, shall lose it


    43. 9 And when their fellow-servants saw what happened it distressed them much; and they came and told their Lord of all that had taken place; Then his Lord called him and said to him You wicked servant all that debt I forgave you because you besought me: was it not then incumbent on you also to have mercy on your fellow-servant as I had mercy on you? And his Lord became angry and delivered him to the scourgers till he should pay all that he owed


    44. It is incumbent on me to do the deeds of him that sent me while it is day: a night will come and no man will be able to busy himself


    45. His Lord answered and said to him you wicked and slothful servant you knew me 35 that I reap where I sowed not and gather where I did not scatter; it was incumbent on you to put my money to the bank and then I should come and seek it with its gains


    46. Ahmed, the guy who kidnapped us in South Africa, was among them and it turned out he was bent on avenging his brother who had been one of the men burned in your bonfire


    47. ankles because he didn’t have enough where-with-all to keep his legs bent on his own


    48. But none of that explained why the Fifth Fleet seemed so bent on being the ones to re-capture Raidan rather than opening up the operation more widely for other fleets and Intel Wing to assist


    49. the cabin was bent on the steering wheel


    50. bent on having a good time














































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    Synonyms for "bent on"

    insistent resolved set on prone