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How to use winding in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Winding means the act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”). Example: “The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.”

Examples of winding by meaning

nounA curving, sinuous, or twisting form.

  • If you went down the river long enough, along its sinewy windings, you’d reach the sea; but what could you do there?1985, Margaret Atwood, “Jezebel’s”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 225

adjectiveSinuous, turning, or twisting in form.

  • Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.1950 December, R. C. J. Day, R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press...

More sentences with winding

  • The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.From the entry deceased
  • Paige seemed to be winding up for a fastball but then switched it up.From the entry wind up
  • My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.From the entry doubly
  • The grandfather clock keeps going for over a week without winding.From the entry keep going
  • Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?From the entry wind up
  • The festival seems to be winding down now.From the entry wind down
  • The dancing was winding down when she crashed in.From the entry crash in
  • The thick places are created by winding effect yarn around the core yarn.2015, Katarzyna Ewa Grabowska, Izabela Ciesielska-Wróbel, “Characteristic and Application of Knop Fancy Yarn”, in Fibres and Textiles in…. From the entry knop
  • Anna put on a gingham teadress and wedges, winding her hair up in kirby grips.2013, Abby Clements, Vivien’s Heavenly Ice Cream Shop, Quercus, →ISBN, page 339. From the entry teadress
  • Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills.2010 July 10, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian. From the entry wynd
  • Killed off by a combination of Botox, and fear of winding up looking somewhat bride-of-Wildenstein?2007 October 6, Polly Vernon, “The facelift king of America”, in The Observer. From the entry facelift
  • It was a two-lane blacktop with no shoulder, winding its way through the piney woods flatscape.2004, Dayne Sherman, Welcome to the Fallen Paradise. From the entry flatscape
  • Gulangyu island has a spectacular crows-nest lookout reached by winding stone staircases.1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post, sourced from…. From the entry lookout
  • These kids were winding up 45 years and 4 days of celebrating.1973, Stevens Indicator - Volumes 90-91, page 55. From the entry celibate
  • I'm winding up seven years of celibating looking for a patient virgin.1973, Stevens Indicator - Volumes 90-91, page 55. From the entry celibate
  • Canvas and duckcloth are used for the protection of the end windings of machines.1929, Journal of the Textile Institute, volume 20, page A-442. From the entry duckcloth
  • Tiphaine was silent when he had ended, watching the winding woodways of the forest.1908, Warwick Deeping, Bertrand of Brittany, page 240. From the entry woodway
  • When it was light enough we climbed a mesa, winding around the far side before coming up to watch our backtrail.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 41. From the entry backtrail
  • “Hey, nearly six hundred quidsworth between us,” Dai yelled as he drove at speed along the winding busy road to Hamsley.2012, Keith Blackburn, Changes in a Landscape. From the entry quidsworth
  • On the winding road back to Futian, Mr.2010, Bryan Tilt, “Saying Farewell to Communal Capital”, in The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil…. From the entry Yanbian
  • When they take him out in morning they lead him on short winding road by the sea to Swabue.2003, Dan Pinck, Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146. From the entry Swabue
  • Our convoy appeared as a huge centipede, winding its way uphill that had acquired various deadlegs at random.2001, Andrew Gurr, A Little Piece of England, page 79. From the entry deadleg
  • The metal banding he was currently winding round a loaded pallet twisted and snapped like a splinter of wood.2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry bander
  • For rotor interaxis error, one stator winding is excited; for stator interaxis error, one rotor winding is excited.1999, Rudolf F. Graf, Modern Dictionary of Electronics, page 384. From the entry interaxis
  • On the winding, two-lane blacktop, Laura Templeton handled the Mustang with an expertise that Chyna admired, but she drove too fast.1995, Dean Koontz, Intensity, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry heavy foot
  • Thanks, Eugene, I was beginning to hallucinate that the Endless September was finally winding down, I appreciate you setting me straight.1994 March 23, Mo Shu Glenn, “Thanks from Hero”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet). From the entry Endless September
  • He stumbled in the enribboned winding sheet that entangled him.1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 81. From the entry enribboned
  • No doubt the dark blind underdrifts were always at the beck and call of the terrible windlass winding the waters down.1966, David Gill, Men Without Evenings, page 37. From the entry underdrift
  • During the same 29 min. the rise in temperature of the interpole windings of the main generator was 30° C.1960 May, “Testing a Brush Type "2" diesel locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 304. From the entry interpole
  • Descending a narrow tree-lined lane the carriage passed into a leisurely winding road, bounded by market-gardens and the River Val.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5. From the entry market garden
  • Bacon remembers standing with him one day and looking over the winding flag stones leading up to his front door.1907 Albert Temple Swing, James Harris Fairchild; Or Sixty-Eight Years with a Christian College, F. H. Revell company, p155. From the entry circumbendibus
  • Imagine Ben Affleck winding up to crucial lines with a snooty "a-hon-hon-hon!" Now that you have, you won't want to go without.2023 August 18, Kyle Buchanan, “Uma Thurman's 'Red, White & Royal Blue' Accent Is One to Savor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry hon
  • A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding the leis around the couple’s hands to bind them together.2013 August 30, Kat Kinsman, “Something borrowed: Wedding traditions from around the world”, in CNN. From the entry family
  • Angerer also documented the desolate banks of the winding Dâmbovița, the muddy rivulet that divided the Wallachian capital and flooded almost every spring.2013, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, “Romanian Architecture and Cityscape: The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Photographers”, in Micheline Nilsen…. From the entry Dâmbovița
  • On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos.2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry how do you do
  • In Beijing, near the Forbidden City, a winding maze of hutongs, or narrow alleyways, is home to one of the world’s most exotic markets.2007 October 16, Brice J. Bay, “Thanks, but I’ll have the bat on a stick instead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hutong
  • A woodchip trail (which tied the whole community) led into a line of conifers and down a winding slope beside a wood overwalk to oceanside.2005, Ken Gunther, Lilith: A Biography, page 425. From the entry overwalk
  • Inherent electrical errors, which consist of conformity and interaxis errors, result from rotor and stator ellipticity and eccentricity, and imperfect winding and flux distribution.1985, Harold A. Rothbart, Mechanical Design and Systems Handbook, page 41-11. From the entry interaxis

Meaning of winding

  1. noun The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
  2. noun The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
  3. adjective Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.

Full definition of winding

Questions about winding in a sentence

How do you use winding in a sentence?
Winding is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.”
What is a short sentence with winding?
“Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?”
What does winding mean?
Winding means the act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).

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