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    Use "winding" in a sentence

    winding example sentences

    winding


    1. " He might not have taken the winding nature of the interconnects into account because he had never been there


    2. ’ Adrian started, then, realizing that his wife is winding him up, bursts out laughing


    3. It took another hour before her battered old car finally struggled up the winding roads and steep hills that lead to his remote home in South-West County Wickford


    4. under the weight of its own floral winding sheet, using vegetation as a shield against


    5. twisted round him like a winding sheet


    6. help guide tourists along a winding path from these studios to the taverna that


    7. I felt rough fibres catching at the corners of my mouth as though I were being force fed a winding sheet, and then, as stars started to explode across my eyelids, I realised with a flood of relief that my head and shoulders were still covered by the sacking


    8. We blustered across the tarmac to the arrivals hall which was more like someone's lounge and after about ten minutes, to my immense relief, I recognised my luggage on the carousel looking forlorn and winding its way towards me like a prisoner finally released


    9. across the back of a chair, a winding cloth


    10. following the winding path

    11. Shortly afterwards, we enter a village called Panwik, its high street winding up a slow hill, bordered by stone houses built in a warm Cotswold stone


    12. Agile and talkative she led me through winding streets and alleyways, turning left - then up some steps, then right - and down some more, then a little slope until at last she pointed to a restaurant nestling in the corner of a shaded square and proudly announced, “Restaurant Virrgenia


    13. At the turning area in the light from an old van and a single bulb in a shed, fifteen or so fishermen crunch on the gravel, concentrating hard whilst straightening coloured nets and winding spiky lines around their baskets with bare hands


    14. ' We walked along the winding passageway until we came to the Lemon Tree


    15. Over in the direction of the winding construction that would bring even more tourists up the mountain, incongruous dumper trucks and excavators rumbled about in clouds of silent swirling dust, chomping a way through the mountain bringing the future to the past and showing little respect, if any, for the feast


    16. ‘Gary …’ I protested, winding up to giving him a clear idea of how I feel about it; he puts his hand over mine


    17. I’ve tried all sorts of tactics … turning it inside out and grabbing hold of the corners of the duvet through the cover and trying to get the wretched thing to turn itself back the right way; winding the cover back over my arms and then grabbing the duvet and shaking hard … nothing seems to work


    18. Instead Yellelle kept turning on smaller paths, going up and down hills and winding thru wild hillsides on paths that barely existed


    19. of the distant past didn't at all mind just one here and there after winding


    20. ' he said, winding his arm round my waist and kissing my forehead

    21. We drive through Wells and up the winding hill leading towards Bath


    22. thirsty labour, toiling up and down the hills on the winding and dusty


    23. the others down the winding trail


    24. up the winding stone stairs that lead to the upper


    25. winding stairs to the uppermost level


    26. He couldn’t really miss it - for a start the wide, road-sized surface very soon dwindled into a winding trackway


    27. walked towards the winding stairs that lead to the


    28. Though he would never admit to anyone that he was deliberately winding James Middlesex up, his natural sense of humour was sitting on the sidelines enjoying itself


    29. They came out of the house and we all stood on the porch looking at the run-off, standing puddles and small ponds, and streams slowly winding toward the Tahoe


    30. They hired porters to deliver their few items of luggage to their chosen hotel up the long series of narrow winding lanes and stepped paths

    31. The road stretches out in front of me, winding along the ridge of the hill – I’d forgotten how much I like this road


    32. Gina watched as Heather walked up the winding staircase


    33. Johnny’s was blue with thin lines of gold winding


    34. Beyond and into the mountainsides are countless smaller rooms and above them smaller courts and gardens and fields winding away for miles over the hillsides


    35. negotiating the torturous, winding road down the cliffs to


    36. conversation was cut short by a moped winding its way


    37. Now it was time to dash along the winding upper residential footpaths just outside the Institute's public gate


    38. As Nightday turned into Dawnsleep they sat with a cup winding down the day


    39. Since we don't have open country here, but winding back streets, canals, a scattering of village centers every few thousand yards, plenty of foot and wagon traffic, I don't think ground pursuit is practical right now


    40. It's been half a mortal lifetime where I was from, and it's been a long winding road to get here

    41. Secondly, the use of several very ingenious machines, which facilitate and abridge, in a still greater proportion, the winding of the worsted and woollen yarn, or the proper arrangement of the warp and woof before they are put into the loom ; an operation which, previous to the invention of those machines, must have been extremely tedious and troublesome


    42. The wood yet burned, blood trickled from his fingers, winding down the length of it


    43. There was over a dozen of them; their flesh covered in festering wounds and winding black veins -- their empty, black eyes drinking in their enemies


    44. Following the winding corridors and lofty structures, she eventually found her way to the practice yard that the innkeeper’s son had mentioned


    45. Tears streaming down his face, he’d reeled a winding path out of the shed


    46. By the time Brynjolf arrived, the city was already winding down for the day


    47. Teeth clenched again and he pulled his fist back more, winding up for the toss


    48. winding up the slave of Tyrus?


    49. It’s a long winding indoor “canal” and the guests are given inflated inner tubes to sit on


    50. The momentum was too much for him to control and he immediately staggered clumsily forward onto his hands and knees, held for a moment and then collapsed flat on his chest, winding himself again














































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    Synonyms for "winding"

    twist wind winding meandering rambling wandering tortuous twisting twisty voluminous bent hooked bending curved bowed serpentine

    "winding" definitions

    the act of winding or twisting


    marked by repeated turns and bends


    of a path e.g.