How to Use winding in a Sentence

winding

1 of 2 noun

• That’s even more true in the fall, with the back nine winding through the trees.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
• For now, though, the tunnel of the war remains long, winding and dark.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• For each 45-degree turn there is a click for homophiles that love to hear the sound of the watch winding.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
• Indeed, the base hit put the Astros ahead 2-1, and a Texas-style winding broke out.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2021
• At the top of the winding staircases are a pub and dining area.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• Next week, a big one, Sung Kang is here to talk Fast Six in the long winding road upon.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 28 May 2021
• One of the cars stopped atop one of the coaster's highest points, while the other stopped amid the winding turns closer to the ground.
  — Craig Webb, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• The divers used a guide rope to lead them in the right direction through the cave's winding passageways.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• Trucks towed side-dump trailers around the winding bends dozens of feet above the glassy surface of the Iron Gate Reservoir.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
• Visitors who don’t want that climb can motor in and out to the edge of the water on a one-car winding road.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2021
• But to get too hung up on a cringey lyric is to miss the point of Miley Cyrus at this phase of her weird, winding, one-of-one career.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The lobby, with its high ceilings and two-story winding staircase, is one of the city's best places to sip and be seen.
  — Margaret Littman, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
• The beach is considered one of the best on the island, accessed at the base of a lengthy, steep, and winding road, and ideal for swimming.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
• Just inside the front door, in the home’s foyer, the winding staircase is a visual focal point.
  — Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022
• The town’s winding lanes crackled with tension as, amid drifts of fresh snow, Boston came alive.
  — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• Gone are the days of threading, winding and scrolling through reels of microfilm in search of your ancestors.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Those gaps are exemplified by the winding path the group had to take to access its Covid-19 data.
  — Katie Palmer, STAT, 29 May 2021
• Overhead pictures show little more than a thin brown ribbon of dirt and mud winding through spindly trees along the Farewell Burn.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
• An investor in the company has already filed a petition in Hong Kong to force the winding up of the business.
  — Laura He, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
• But the summer movie season continues a winding down that may last deep into the fall.
  — Lindsey Bahr, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
• Still, the town hall is the latest in a long, winding and sometimes weird relationship between Trump and CNN.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Now the winding ridges that make up the capital bristle with buildings like a little Hong Kong in the middle of a jungle.
  — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
• Not long after Turk’s team had stopped along the ridge, the patrol turned a corner on a winding, deserted road and came upon an army van parked by the side of the road.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2021
• Even those with the gears to make the trek aren't allowed to attempt it alone, instead trailing Anna on the winding, cell-service-free road that leads to the compound.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2021
• Outside, the two-acre grounds add a winding landscaped driveway, a courtyard wrapped in ivy and backyard with two patios and a fire pit.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
• Taking the winding drive up to the hillside hamlet of Jerome is an essential Arizona road trip.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2022
• The rest of the crew followed their own winding paths toward influencerdom.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Isis Ilias lives with her three children in the complex, which sits above Southwest Broadway Drive, a winding, two-lane road.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2022
• Copland’s 1944 suite is also a winding, wending narrative journey that veers from one mood and mode to the next.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Although cars without drivers have become a common sight on San Francisco’s winding and sloping streets, there are long-standing tensions between the city’s residents and the cars.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024

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winding

2 of 2 adjective

• Traversing the long and winding cart paths through the woods is part of the fun.
  — John Carpenter, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• And beefing up the staff is a long and winding process.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 July 2023
• The road that led him back to his alma mater was long and winding, to say the least.
  — Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
• It's been a long and winding road for MoviePass since its 2011 launch.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 26 May 2023
• Dean will discuss the long and winding road from there to here next month in Huntsville.
  — Lee Roop, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The line connecting the two trades is crooked and winding.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
• But Bernstein took a long and winding road to get there.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• Sunday’s game here against the New Orleans is the end of a long and winding road for the Dolphins.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 30 Sep. 2017
• The dogs puzzle out the boy’s mission, and work to assist him on his long and winding road to Spot.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• His long and winding road served him well, Bennett said.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Then, turn the un-winding handle to rapidly remove the line.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Could there be one more chapter in his long and winding career?
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• How the state reached this point is a complicated and winding path.
  — Allie Morris, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2018
• Next to her, Jonas looked cool in a leather blazer, white shirt, black trousers, and a black tie held with a winding silver clip.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2023
• The slightly winding layout presents many ways to approach each hole.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2023
• One, a winding (but not too winding) road, ideally much of it two-lane.
  — Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, the Jonas Brothers member looked cool in a leather blazer, white shirt, black trousers, and a black tie held with a winding clip.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• With more twists and turns than a long and winding road, Girl in the Picture offers an unforgettable ride.
  — Melissa Sherrard, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Jones said recently, speaking of both his disputes with Cormier and his own winding path back to the top.
  — Greg Beacham, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• The road to customer acquisition can be long and winding.
  — Nicky Senyard, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• This is the story of the long and winding trail that led researchers from the P versus NP problem to meta-complexity.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• With each looming deadline, the stakes grow higher and the politics more winding.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• His story will be told in this long and winding journey, not in these first few steps, yet each of these steps are viewed as part of a final chapter.
  — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 13 July 2017
• Its shady and winding paths invite you to view species of Chamaedorea palms with arching leaves and narrow, bamboo-like ringed stems.
  — Helen Purcell Montag, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
• Those last four words are a reminder to Lenik, who is in his first major-league spring-training camp after a long and winding road in baseball.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 12 Mar. 2018
• Building a sizable audience for a new podcast is a long and winding road.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• If your property is on a sharply winding road or if high-voltage lines are in the way, there may be no way to get a prefab unit onto your lot.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• All Roads North’s Journey Guides map out every superlative crook in the long and winding road, as well as driving times and lore about locales along the way.
  — Donna Bulseco, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Demoff could’ve never known the winding path that would bring McVay to Los Angeles.
  — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
• One of them even borrows from the concept that Greendale was built on 80 years ago — that is to have winding paths that lead to everything a family needs.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024