Winding in example sentence

I know what it is to be jilted, Sir; I have endured that sort of thing three or four times.''I am much obliged to you, for your condolence on what you presume to be my melancholy case,' said Mr. Pickwick, winding up his watch, and laying it on the table, 'but--''No, no,' said Mr. Peter Magnus, 'not a word more; it's a painful subject.

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Let's begin by winding the timeline back 13.7 billion years, to the beginning of time.

After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us was a mass of holes that could fit into the size of a football field, and all of them were full of enslaved people laboring.

Oh, who can understand her, this winding Niger river of a woman one who is unafraid to tear away only to roam and then become the wind.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, winding through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, started as a simple network of dirt roads and blossomed into the centerpiece of the winning North Vietnamese strategy during the Vietnam War, supplying weapons, troops, and psychological support to the South.

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