Sentences with wind up
wind up
W w - The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- The Bank of England seems determined to wind up the company. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- He could wind up in gaol. [VERB PREPOSITION preposition/adverb]
- He started winding the window up but I grabbed the door and opened it. [VERB noun PREPOSITION]
- ...an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone.
- He wound up the proceedings
- He was all wound up before the big fight
- You'll wind up without any teeth
- They were wound up in three different scandals
- She just thinks it's a big wind-up
- A wind-up radio
- An old-fashioned wind-up gramophone
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
- Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.
- Your pocket watch will run for a long time if you wind up the spring all the way.
- Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.
- Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?
- If you give it another wind, you'll break the mainspring.
- The river winds through the forest.
- The ivy winds around the house.
- She wound the thread off the bobbin.
- To wind a clock; to wind up a toy.
- The stream winds its way through the woods.
- To wind one's way into another's confidence.