How to Use windup in a Sentence
- He went into the windup, then threw the pitch.
- Her brother's act was just a wind-up to get her angry.
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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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If a date winds up happening in the middle of all of that, great.
— Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Or, for that matter, what this search would even wind up being truly about.
— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024 -
One thing leads to the next, which is to say the unlikely duo wind up with a dead body on their hands and a snoopy neighbor (Judith Light) to ward off.
— Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023 -
Brown wound up with a game-high 109 receiving yards on five catches.
— Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 14 Apr. 2024 -
But the new findings demonstrate that heavy metals in cannabis plants can also wind up in the human body.
— Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023 -
Storms and a couple of small earthquakes wind up feeling like events, but not troubling ones.
— K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023 -
Plenty of them wind up putting their careers on hold, stepping out of the workforce, or scaling back at work to do this labor of love.
— Emily Peck, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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