How to Use winder in a Sentence

winder

noun
  • This is often a plastic piece that fits over your bobbin winder.
    — Vanessa Nirode, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a piper to the sovereign and a grand carver and a royal clock winder.
    — William Booth, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Getting yourself a wire cutter and string winder is helpful to make the process less tedious.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The purchase includes wrist straps, a winder and a high-quality storage bag.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
  • Expect warmer, winder and more humid weather Thursday into next week.
    — Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Many are total newbies who don’t know the difference between a bobbin winder and a stitch width dial.
    — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 July 2020
  • In the air, move your hands and feet out to the sides (around 6 to 12 inches), landing with soft elbows in this winder stance.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2021
  • My suite had a view of the courtyard, the hotel’s signature red awnings slanting from the opposite winders like the brims of hats worn just for show.
    — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Each line includes a winder, a stitcher (for flattening the brooms) and then a simple wooden braiding table.
    — Liz Logan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
  • According to Wellsted, the current issue is the winder, also known as the hoist which brings miners up.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Royals rookie side-winder Tim Hill relinquished his team’s tenuous one-run lead in the seventh.
    — Maria Torres, kansascity, 9 July 2018
  • Christina Cardone of Philadelphia headed for the ball winder.
    — Andrea Sachs, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In a video interview, Wellsted describes an electrical surge disabling the winder.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Meanwhile, Biden had begun another stem-winder, on infrastructure.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Darku, a prisoner at the time, allegedly attacked Balch/Baulch with a steel window winder, and the guard required 27 stitches.
    — The Root, 7 July 2017
  • Cartier began incorporating gems into its gentleman’s watches in the late ‘60s and this timepiece is even equipped with a diamond winder.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Called watch winders, the boxes contain oscillating cylinders around which the publicist’s 15 gleaming wristwatches are attached like rings to fingers.
    — Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Band Industries Following a successful Kickstarter last year, a combination tuner, string winder and metronome is now available to buy.
    — New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2026
  • To make a broom, the broom maker attaches the broomcorn to the wooden broom handle with the help of a winder, sometimes called a spindle, which holds tension on a wire or string as the broom maker turns the handle and gradually adds the broomcorn.
    — Liz Logan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
  • There’s some speechifying from politicians like Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, but the documentary, to its credit, keeps the stem-winders to a minimum.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • With few mentions of homelessness or other key issues in the mayor’s race, Sanders’ speech was more a resounding argument for voting Democrat in the midterms than a stem-winder on the merits of Bass.
    — Benjamin Oreskesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Bannon, who has toured the country delivering populist stem-winders, painted Tuesday's election as pivotal in the battle against McConnell and the Moore's accusers.
    — Bloomberg, AL.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • One day when al-Sadr was trying to pull together a mass meeting of his followers for another of his stem-winders, the kind that eventually launched his bloody uprising, Mattis cut him off at the pass, or, more specifically, at the bus station.
    — Thomas P.m. Barnett, Esquire, 23 June 2010

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