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How to use the word winding in a Sentence?

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While the pandemic is winding down, its impact is still being felt, many of you may be too young to remember polio, but when I was growing up, this disease struck fear in families, including my own.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That includes admitting errors of fact and errors in decision-making. News credibility is in deep decline and that is partly because news organizations can't bring themselves to honestly explain to the public when they have made mistakes.Further, when mistakes are acknowledged, they should get sufficient space and placement that readers can actually see them, the Hunter Biden laptop story is important on several levels.First, the story was ignored by most establishment media when it first broke, and what little coverage it received was largely to dismiss or debunk the scoop of the New York Post.The journalism of omission in this case was totally glaring in that the establishment media were clearly trying to protect the Biden family as the 2020 election was winding down.

Jeffrey McCall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're just winding up. I'm really motivated and excited.

Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just don't want anyone else winding up like me.

Aimee Matzen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With tonight's game winding down, I'm thinking' Well, this is it. My last broadcast.' And all that's going through my mind is I have been so fortunate to be doing this for 55 years. Doing what I love, having a front-row seat for so many of the iconic moments of sports history.

Marv Albert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Neighbors described seeing and hearing a plane heading from east to west, it sounded like a loud winding noise as the plane was then observed going over a wooded area, [ and ] dropped from the sky. There was a loud crash and a fireball.

Sheriff Sheron

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I thought we could wind it down sooner. But I had no idea how popular The Task Force is until, actually, yesterday when I started talking about winding it down, i get calls from very respected people saying,' I think it would be better to keep it going, it's done such a good job.'.

President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Time in winding down for Dish, if they don't find a way to build a network, they lose their spectrum.

Roger Entner

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mike DeWine's not naturally somebody who you would look at as the typical successful Governor, who is a back-slapper and gives stem-winding speeches, mike DeWine's a grind-it-out governor, manager, who just gets things done.

Pat Tiberi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We will need to see some sort of concrete deal put in place and a winding back of United States before I will start getting excited about the global economic outlook for 2020.

Jeffrey Halley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

Nelson Mandela

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Winding the clock forward 10-12 years, if consumer behavior stays the same we will see thousands of people arriving home and wanting to charge up their cars at the time that is already peak demand for most countries.

Jonathan Tudor

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We understand there is a market for war memorabilia and that serious collectors are interested in items like this, while we don’t have an issue with Nazi-era automobiles like this going up for auction, we would not want to see the vehicle winding up in the hands of someone who would use it to glorify Hitler or the deeds of the Nazis. Ideally, we would prefer to see it housed in a museum, so that it could be understood in its proper context.

Ken Jacobson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A lot of New Zealand private equity players are not raising money or they have got succession issues or they are winding up, so what you probably see is that more Australian people are doing Australia New Zealand deals.

Adrian Loader

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I thought it was going to be a relatively quiet beat. The Cold War was winding down.

Wolf Blitzer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is our primary importance that consumers are protected, consumers are given options, and consumers do not have a gap in coverage. That’s why you see these co-ops winding down in the fourth quarter – so the American people have coverage until the end of the year and new coverage starting on January 1st.

Kevin Counihan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Many old timers spoke of 'winding-up' a Model 'T' Ford to get it started: In the same time period, watchmakers had perfected time-pieces which required 'winding-up' only once in every eight days:

Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

The current environment represents a winding back of the overly bullish expectations of both commodity demand and Chinese growth – to a more balanced expectation of progressive, not exponential, growth.

Angus Gluskie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Earnings season is winding down and the market is absorbing reports from retailers, which are generally pretty good and the economy is in good shape right,so investors are hoping for a better world economy.

Giri Cherukuri

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, it now transpires that I should have filed for winding up earlier, probably in that case that process would have been completed before the 'Black Thursday' of 15 January 2015, when the unpreparedness of Alpari UK and its lack of any financial buffer caused its collapse and insolvency.

Andrey Dashin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When most people are winding down, Howard Finster was winding up.

Jordan Poole

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He took his key. It turned in the lock to the sounds of Aeolian music. A door opened upon slow hinges, and disclosed a winding stair within. The key vanished from his fingers. Tangle went up. Mossy followed. The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through ours transparent walls the earth beneath their get. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall And by this time I think they must have got there.

George Mac Donald

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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