Bent
Bent noun - A special and usually inborn ability.
Usage example: having a decided bent for languages, he picked up Italian in no time
Nearby Word: bend
Hang
Hang noun - A special way of doing something.
Usage example: he couldn't get the hang of it
Both words in one sentence
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In one of the movies, Bender joins a secret society of robots bent on killing all humans, only to find that they've grown soft over the years and just hang around drinking.
Source: Kill All Humans -
She said "Hang on a minute", grabbed the man's wrist (which was severely bent) and forced him to drop his gun.
Source: Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? -
EVERY Soap Opera that has turned a beautiful, intelligent woman with numerous other appealing qualities into a psycho bitch hell-bent on doing everything she can, up to and including murder to hang on to a man who doesn't love her, despite the fact that she could easily get another.
Source: Love Makes You Evil
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