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Example sentences for "winded"

Lexicographically close words:
windage; windblown; windbreak; windbreaks; winde; winder; winders; windes; windeth; windfall
  1. Elspeth Glendinning, but not till he was out of hearing, spurring on his good horse to regain the head of his party, whose plumage and armour were now glancing and gradually disappearing in the distance, as they winded down the glen.

  2. All broken-winded horses have the cough peculiar to the affection, but it is not regular.

  3. In recent cases very few changes are noticeable, but in animals that have been broken-winded for a long time the changes are well-marked.

  4. Broken-winded animals should not be used for breeding purposes.

  5. The leap in air, and then the crash of the sled as it landed, the snap of the harness chains, the snorts of the winded beasts, the yells of the driver, the anxiety and nervousness of the passengers!

  6. I bet the Rangers winded a hundred horses chasin' yuh when yuh was hangin' around lower Texas.

  7. Covertly, from beneath the brim of his hat, Allen watched them while pretending to listen to a long-winded story by Shorty.

  8. A few nights after this, when the pack was following together the discouraging trail of a long-winded and wily buck, they crossed the trail of a man on snow-shoes.

  9. What was a drowned wolf, when there was a winded buck not far ahead?

  10. The dullest reviewers I have known, however, have been the long- winded ones.

  11. The long-winded are the dullest of dull reviewers, but the most pernicious are the wielders of cliches and platitudes.

  12. In fact, he was so winded that he hardly knew when he dipped his blade in the yeasty water, or drew it quaveringly toward him.

  13. All he could do was to sink down on the friendly shore, and pant like a winded deer.

  14. But the short-winded locksmith had no chance against a man of Sim's youth and spare figure, though the day had been when he could have run him down in no time.

  15. Having gained the open air by a postern door, they walked a little way up the wild, bleak, and narrow valley in which the house was situated, following the course of the stream that winded through it.

  16. Only the great thoroughbred horse winded them and snorted, pulling at the riem with which he was tied to the hind wheel of the waggon.

  17. Metastasio has been lately translated into their modern jargon, and some obliging papa or other has had the patience to put the long-winded romance of Clelia into a Grecian dress.

  18. Cleggett knew that sooner or later a winded man makes a fault.

  19. He lived now without any other friends than his heroes and his cats and dogs, devouring the novels of La Calprenede, and relating long-winded romances to himself.

  20. It was a beetling crag, round which winded a very narrow and broken footpath, commanded in various places by the position which they held.

  21. In a few minutes afterwards he found himself involved in the total darkness of a staircase, which, entering from the low-browed cavern we have mentioned, winded upwards through the entrails of the living rock.

  22. The doctor's carriage with the broken-winded pony was standing at the door of the farm.

  23. And then he jolted away down the lane in his shaky trap, drawn by his broken-winded pony.

  24. So saying, he clapped his bugle to his mouth and winded three merry notes, and presently up the path came leaping fivescore good stout yeomen with Little John at their head.

  25. Then he clapped his horn to his lips and winded a blast that went echoing sweetly down the forest paths.

  26. It presently winded the hare, stood, gazed at him, then after a glance at the faint glow in the depressions between the hills, hurried to its earth.


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