How to Use windup in a Sentence

windup

1 of 2 noun

• He went into the windup, then threw the pitch.
• Her brother's act was just a wind-up to get her angry.
• Whether in the windup or the stretch, there aren’t very many moving parts.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 3 May 2018
• This is a long windup to say, the Beavers should have seen this coming.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2022
• Sandy into his windup and the pitch, a fastball for a strike!
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• Sandy into his windup and the pitch, a fastball for a strike.
  — Houston Mitchell, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Everything out of the stretch and out of the windup feels solid.
  — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 21 June 2018
• McAvoy used his bottom (right) hand to push the puck to Haula, rather than take a full windup.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Semien noted Greinke had switched to a full windup during the at-bat.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• Mann is, first, a supremely gifted storyteller, adept at the slow windup and the rapid turn of the screw.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Love had a long windup and often stared receivers down.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• That’s a key stat against Greinke who is a better pitcher from the windup, with no runners on.
  — Skip Snow, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 25 Oct. 2019
• The motion on McEnroe’s serve is still the same — the slow windup, the left-handed delivery.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 9 June 2018
• The new windup kept the ball hidden long enough, hitters couldn’t pick up Tiant’s release point.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• Alas, the windup was better than the pitch because the batters had a hard time getting the donkeys to move at all.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2021
• Mayor Frank Curran made the first pitch from a full windup, bouncing it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
• The folks at ApolloHou even made a T-shirt diagramming the steps of the windup.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 29 Oct. 2021
• Perdomo tip-toed through his windup, lobbed a ball to the plate and watched as his pitch clanked off the top of Pillar’s left cleat.
  — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
• If a pitcher isn't in his windup before 20 seconds, a ball will be called.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
• From the windup, long skinny limbs twist toward the plate like a tornado.
  — Jack Harriswriter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• The commissions and many of the windup costs of selling the remaining shares in the fund will be borne by the fundholders.
  — Simon Constable, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
• The count was 1-2 when Binghamton pitcher Cory Burns slipped mid-windup and sent the ball rolling more toward the first base line than the plate.
  — Staff Report, courant.com, 29 May 2017
• Like, roller coaster plunging down — there was no windup.
  — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The pitcher must begin his windup before time runs out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• A windy windup Nightfall in the desert often means the end of whatever breeze has been blowing that day.
  — Charles Fleming, star-telegram, 19 June 2017
• The Dodgers and Yankees split the first four games and Stengel liked the deception of Larsen's no-windup delivery.
  — NBC News, 2 Jan. 2020
• Tinplate windups did not require a track, so they could be used anywhere.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• In fact, early in his career, Bauer was a huge Lincecum fan and tried to emulate the Freak’s windup.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Anderson pitched free and easy out of the windup for most of his eight innings, striking out four and allowing just four hits and a walk on 94 pitches.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• The number dips to 15 seconds with nobody on, and for those who don't begin their windup in time, an automatic ball will be assessed.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Feb. 2023

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wind up

2 of 2 verb

• If a date winds up happening in the middle of all of that, great.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• One of Kraven’s would-be assailants winds up with a bear trap wrapped around his face.
  — Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
• Mucha ended up making nine saves to keep Bartlett in the game, which wound up in a 0-0 tie.
  — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• But the case could well wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court depending on how the process plays out.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• But the two hit it off, and Kramer wound up working with Dylan for five hours.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
• The Shaft soundtrack reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and wound up with a Grammy nod for album of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• The three other men who did wind up on the ballot are little known.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• In some cases, the disputes could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  — Amy Gardner and Emma Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• And all the while, the pair wound up learning a useful tip to help resolve conflict.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
• With all eyes on Sosa, the Cubs star wound up hitting only one home run in 11 swings.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• But the Vikings wind up starting from their 13 after the penalty.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2022
• How did one of the best young bike racers in the country wind up dead in an Austin apartment?
  — Ian Dille, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2023
• The bad news is that every year, a handful of people do wind up on the wrong end of those very long odds.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 July 2023
• The company claims less than 1% of its waste winds up in landfills.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
• Baseball could cut four innings and still wind up an hour longer.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• The four characters wind up meeting in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
• The metaphor applies to the opera’s theme of fate but also the production itself, which starts off shaky and winds up in a ditch.
  — Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• How does growing the pie help if most people wind up scrambling for crumbs?
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• That case, Murthy v. Missouri, also wound up before the Supreme Court this past term.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
• How did the Seahawks wind up with so many European fans?
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Dunn appears to have played a key role in pushing for the debate that wound up sinking Biden.
  — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
• Evan Carter smashed a ball off the warning track in center to open the inning and wound up with a triple when Ceddanne Rafaela wiped out on the dirt.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Like the Bills, the Chiefs could offer what would probably wind up being a late first-round pick in 2023 for CMc.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• Policies that wind up choking off the export of EV wrecks would in some ways be a shame, Slattery says.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• If a parent goes to college, their child is more likely to wind up on a campus.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Nacua wound up recording seven games for over 100 yards.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• A lot of it winds up just financing dodgy consumer debt.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• Plastic bags are also a major source of litter and wind up in the ocean, rivers, and sewers and harm wildlife.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
• The proposal never came to a vote in the Senate, and Biden wound up abandoning these ideas entirely.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Economists argue that huge tariffs wind up costing U.S. consumers — a view Trump disputes.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024