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Example sentences for "wending"

Lexicographically close words:
wende; wended; wenden; wendest; wendeth; wends; wene; wenen; wenest; weneth
  1. Then wending through constellations of flowers, we entered deep groves.

  2. Then I went to the window, and saw down below me The market-wains wending adown the dim street, And the scent of the hay and the herbs seemed to know me, And seek out my heart the dawn's sorrow to meet.

  3. Next followed a dissipated youth, now reclaimed; and after him a chief, who had dared a few years ago proudly to lift up his hand to stop the work of God, now with humble mien, wending his way to worship.

  4. At three the bell was rung, and almost instantly the whole population were wending their way to church.

  5. Others were quietly wending their way thitherward, along the lanes and through the fields.

  6. The three hazy days past, it fell to rain for four days, so that Ralph could see little of the face of the land; but he noted that they went up at whiles, and never so much down as up, so that they were wending up hill on the whole.

  7. They seemed to be wending a straight-walled prison without an end, so that they were glad when the dark night came on them.

  8. There be Burgers otherwhere, housed in no strong castle, but wending the road toward the fair greensward of Upmeads.

  9. We passed several canoes slowly wending their way to the eaves, the people taking it easy and camping on the banks and fishing.

  10. The next morning saw us up long before daybreak, and in the dim light we could see small groups of Notu warriors wending their way amid the tall coconuts in the direction of our camp, till about seventy of them had assembled.

  11. He had been on a peaceful errand to Old Town, to dispose of his baskets, game and peltries, and was now quietly wending his homeward way.

  12. Nothing to be seen but rocks and trees and the little stream quietly wending its way through the valley below.

  13. Along the broad thoroughfare which is one of the main arteries of London a few belated worshippers are wending their way, prayer-book in hand.

  14. Having packed up his portmanteau, he shouldered it, and was wending his way to the Belle Sauvage, when his attention was drawn to a little boy who was sitting on a door-step in one of the narrow, secluded streets in that district.

  15. Day after day, with the thermometer forty degrees below zero, a constant procession of Indians came wending in on the well-beaten snow-track, with axes to grind and kettles to mend.

  16. Late one November day in 1798 he was seen wending his way through the streets of Cincinnati, with Rebecca and all his worldly possessions mounted on packhorses.

  17. So all the time he could see it--the others never saw it at all--he knew that they were wending from west to east, which was their proper course.

  18. Then I remembered those three wending their way along a wet and disagreeable trail, happy and peaceful in anticipation of warm blankets and a level floor.

  19. They lingered there until late in the night, when, wending their way along the road toward Lincoln's cabin, they espied something resembling a man lying dead or insensible by the side of a mud-puddle.

  20. But when the sun was wending to the time of the loosing of cattle, then at last the Cicones drave in the Achaeans and overcame them, and six of my goodly-greaved company perished from each ship: but the remnant of us escaped death and destiny.

  21. A few workmen wending their way homewards from the meadows, with their scythes on their shoulders, walked slowly along, stopping every now and then to say good night to the people in the houses.

  22. Pedestrians are wending their way towards the hall; occasionally a carriage rattles past; and then, as we draw near, the sounds of mirth and minstrelsy break upon the ear.

  23. Wraysholme’s ruined tower, whither we are wending our way, is but a short mile distant, and as we have a long summer afternoon before us, we may wander at our will.

  24. Wending his way through the streets until he reached one of the great arteries of the metropolis, he got into a 'bus and soon found himself on the banks of the Thames.

  25. Then he went off, dragging his foot and tapping the flagstones with the ferrule of his stout stick as he continued wending his way, like an angry philosopher among the suffering pilgrims.

  26. Sometimes she would contrast their appearance with the laborers she had seen wending their way into their lowly huts; and then her face would grow sober even to sadness.

  27. But, really, I should not like to see you wending your way through rough and brawling mobs to the polls.

  28. The two occupants of the open carriage wending its way at a footpace up the steep mountain road were well wrapped up, for at that elevation, late summer as it was, the air was biting and chill.

  29. The afternoon train was crawling up the Rhone valley, wending its leisurely way over the flat and low-lying bottom as though to afford its passengers, mostly foreigners, every opportunity of admiring its native marsh.

  30. Mere pigmies they looked, wending their way along the soaring face of the huge cliffs.

  31. At the same time, far above, a body of troopers might have been seen issuing from the gates of the château and leisurely wending their way downward.

  32. At last I reached a network of narrow lanes and alleys, by turning and wending through which I speedily found myself in a quiet secluded spot, with here and there a flickering candle-light from the windows, but no other sign of habitation.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.