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How to use wend in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb, noun

Wend means to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. Example: “We wended our weary way westward.”

Examples of wend by meaning

verbTo direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

  • We wended our weary way westward.
  • Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in...
  • This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team2022 April 7, Andy Greenberg, “Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site”, in WIRED

More sentences with wend

  • A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air.2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141. From the entry appaloosa
  • I wind and wend my mournsome way, I thread the trees with keening.2002, Pat Stewart, Bill Laforme, Key Light. From the entry mournsome
  • Over life's long trail a-winding, We wend our onward way, Sometimes with spirits broken, Sometimes with heartsongs gay.1920, The Railroad Trainman - Volume 37, page 215. From the entry heartsong
  • Now, wending our way eastwards, we have in the long narrow island of Eubœa a most remarkable phenomenon.1903, E.E.G. and Frank Byron Jevons, The Makers of Hellas: A Critical Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Ancient Greece, page 51…. From the entry Eubœa
  • Lodge told Diem the Nhus should undertake "a period of silence," as Mme Nhu wended her way unsilently across the United States.2024, Charles Trueheart, Diplomats at War. From the entry unsilently
  • We must do an end run around these people, not make the mistake of thinking they are just “het up” or have wended a few yards into a wrong turn.2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 6, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN. From the entry het up
  • As künstlerromane, Brown Girl, Brownstones and Paper Fish clarify the positions of their artist protagonists as they wend their ways to worlds outside the protective spaces of their respective communities.2010, Mary Jo Bona, By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America, page 135 (State University of New York…. From the entry Künstlerromane

Meaning of wend

  1. verb To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  2. verb To turn; change, to adapt.
  3. verb To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.

Full definition of wend

Questions about wend in a sentence

How do you use wend in a sentence?
Wend is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We wended our weary way westward.”
What is a short sentence with wend?
“We wended our weary way westward.”
What does wend mean?
Wend means to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

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