How to Use wend in a Sentence

wend

verb
  • We wended our way through the narrow streets.
  • We wended through the narrow streets.
  • To do so, the men must plunge into and wend their way through a mob.
    — Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • More than six miles of trails wend their way through grassy fields and rolling woodlands.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Now paths wend their way down the hill through the woodland stroll garden.
    — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • One wild card is the tax bill wending its way through Congress.
    — Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Some of the small wending dark tracks are also faults, or deep cracks in the surface.
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
  • The fast-food restaurant project is wending its way through the city review process.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • As the case wends its way further through the courts, the agency will continue its work.
    — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2016
  • And some of those earnings may wend their way back to the original bank in the form of more deposits.
    — Victor Luckerson, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Hikers revel in the many trails that wend their way across rocky beaches, golden prairies and lush forests.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The group wends towards a team parking lot and piles into a Lincoln sedan.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • That ruling will certainly wend its way to the Supreme Court.
    — Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Carnes’s voice, an Iowa singsong, can wend from weary to impassioned in the course of a single thought.
    — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The stranger would excuse herself to refill her glass, and somehow never wend her way back to me.
    — Alex Van Buren, idahostatesman, 22 Feb. 2018
  • While the suit wends its way through the federal court system, two others are waiting in the wings.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The rover will wend its way over two bright blue strips, which cover a series of small hurdles for the rover to hobble over.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The walls are thrumming with it, mainly through the way the mosaiclike collages wend between the works.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Not only does the story wend its way down a rambling country lane, but the road is bordered with giant hedgerows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The case will now wend through the WTO’s legal procedures, which could take years.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The walk would have taken her up and down hills, through a tunnel, along the shoulder of a highway wending through the mountains.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2016
  • There are easy walks to challenging hikes open most of the year that wend through hardwood forests, ridges of dunes and extensive wetlands.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Trying to wend its way back to reality would have killed the whole vibe of the film, something akin to explaining a joke.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • But consider a curvy path like I-95, which wends and winds its way along the Eastern seaboard.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Can true love wend its way through the dense Pacific Northwest forest of secrets and lies?
    — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Kim now hopes to get back on the road by August, wending his way to South America.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 6 July 2017
  • To evoke that setting, the theater has been transformed into a cabaret space, and the actors often wend their way among the tables.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • Oceanographers who know the currents of the Gulf fear that the slick will wend around the tip of Florida.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
  • Nicole Zhao, 38, was one of many who had to wend, dodge and hopscotch their way through barriers that had been set up on the roads.
    — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Some changed trains to take the Rocky Mountaineer, the luxury train that wends its way north through the Rockies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019

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