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
  • Ahead of them is a winding, curving drive home in the dark.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
  • No gloom-dark tree-glitter winding and twining its silks.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
  • For now, though, the tunnel of the war remains long, winding and dark.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
  • That film goes to great lengths to stick to the book’s winding and intricate plot.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • At the top of the winding staircases are a pub and dining area.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The town’s winding lanes crackled with tension as, amid drifts of fresh snow, Boston came alive.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But the summer movie season continues a winding down that may last deep into the fall.
    — Lindsey Bahr, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Just inside the front door, in the home’s foyer, the winding staircase is a visual focal point.
    — Dallas News, 30 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
  • 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 rest of the crew followed their own winding paths toward influencerdom.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • But the winding, Upside Down road to getting there hasn’t always been as set in stone.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 25 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Water from a winding, jagged valley feeds the swimming spot, which has a 32-foot-wide pebbly beach.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Inside, a winding staircase can be found in the main foyer along with a statement chandelier in the dining room.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • By using 4×3-phase hairpin windings, the new motor can pack more copper into the same space.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The coolant is in good thermal contact with both the electronic components and the motor windings.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2018
  • Lightweight and easy to use with swivel steering and automatic cord winding and top-of-the-line suction.
    — Matt Fleming, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The roads to get to this remote village are narrow, winding and treacherous — in some places blocked by boulders and rubble.
    — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But the road to this point has been long, winding and bumpy, not to mention inordinately expensive.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • The road that led him back to his alma mater was long and winding, to say the least.
    — Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Could there be one more chapter in his long and winding career?
    — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • Dean will discuss the long and winding road from there to here next month in Huntsville.
    — Lee Roop, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • How the state reached this point is a complicated and winding path.
    — Allie Morris, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • It's been a long and winding road for MoviePass since its 2011 launch.
    — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 26 May 2023
  • 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
  • Building a sizable audience for a new podcast is a long and winding road.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • With each looming deadline, the stakes grow higher and the politics more winding.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • It's been a long and winding journey full of failure after failure after failure.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The path to Pollard’s early release was a bit winding, however.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a long and winding drive into a no-cell-service zone, you’ll be greeted by the property’s team (ideally along with one of their pet dogs).
    — Brooke Ely Danielson, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Elton John took a long and winding road to marital bliss with his current husband, David Furnish.
    — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 5 June 2019
  • Demoff could’ve never known the winding path that would bring McVay to Los Angeles.
    — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The road is narrow and winding, but the Civic Si’s chassis tuning shines, letting the car dance eagerly between corners.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The travel life cycle is long and winding — from booking, to day-of logistics, to the return home — and consumers encounter decisions every step of the way.
    — James Freeze, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • 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

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