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Example sentences for "windings"

Lexicographically close words:
windflowers; windie; windies; windiest; winding; windlass; windlasses; windless; windmill; windmills
  1. He found relief only in animal action and rapid motion, and rode furiously onward without knowing or regarding the course taken by his horse, who instinctively followed the dark windings of the forest paths.

  2. Broad but shallow channels, deepening from time to time into large water-holes, follow in a parallel direction the many windings of the creek, with which they have occasionally a small communication.

  3. Sheltered in the ravines and windings of the valley, their artillery, being almost invisible, had nothing to disturb its aim.

  4. They marveled how it was that the mysterious man could follow the windings and turnings in the dark, but, as they learned afterward, he had been in the cave before.

  5. Once more they advanced, but they became confused by many windings and turnings of the dark passages, until Frank called a halt.

  6. But they set off briskly, and were soon lost to sight among the windings of the forest road.

  7. We left Aosta to its memories of Roman days, threaded for some distance the tortuous windings of the Val d'Aosta, and crossed the Pont de la Salle above a high gorge.

  8. From the top of a hill the town, and the valley of the Isle, stretched beneath us a lovely view; the windings of the river Isle, its bridges mirrored in the crimson flood.

  9. From our lofty observation point on the ramparts there was visible a great range of country, the slender windings of the river Aude, the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the vague summits of the Cevennes.

  10. I ran up steep places, I cut off the windings of the path by lightly clambering over rocks, and even when I followed the beaten track my step was as rapid as if I had been walking on level ground.

  11. Its nearest side was steep, and in places almost precipitous, but it sloped away more gradually toward the north, and up that side a road led by devious windings to a village near the summit.

  12. The American contention was that the line should follow closely the windings of the shore of the mainland, thus giving the United States a continuous strip of coast.

  13. They could trace its windings from the tree, and marked it in their minds.

  14. He thus entered a part they had not before visited, for as the trees and bushes were not so thick by the water, their usual path followed the windings of the shore.

  15. Far up the windings of the lesser stream he marked a man in a boat.

  16. Then he paddled back leisurely by the way he had come, his dingy yellow straw hat appearing to sail close over the grass as the boat followed the windings of the stream.

  17. Here as elsewhere, if we would estimate the service of Erasmus to the Reformation, we must try to feel out of the windings of his rhetoric the impression he wished to leave uppermost in the reader's mind, and as to that we can hardly hesitate.

  18. Rose, Trudaine and Lomaque are seated together on the bench that overlooks the windings of the Seine.

  19. She bore on her course along the virgin waters of Lake Erie, through the beautiful windings of the Detroit, and among the restless billows of Lake Huron, where a furious tempest had well nigh ingulphed her.

  20. Crossing fresh-water oceans in their birch canoes, and threading the devious windings of solitary streams, they came flocking to the common centre of attraction.

  21. Yet he who endeavors to interpret an Indian allegory through all its erratic windings and puerile inconsistencies, has undertaken no enviable task.

  22. From the eastward, the Ohio--La Belle Riviere--pursued its windings for more than a thousand miles.

  23. The dog did not once check its speed through the numberless windings of the course Negro had followed; and master and dog together reached the spot where the horrible drama we recently described occurred.

  24. All backed away now, leaving room for Buck, who dragged his captive along the windings of the dark cavern, commenting upon his appearance the while.

  25. At our feet, in an immense valley intersected by a large river, whose numerous capacious windings resembled a silver thread, a multitude of black spots spotted the tall grass.

  26. When the Mexicans had disappeared in the windings of the road, Valentine emerged from the grotto, and walked courteously up to the hunters of the second caravan.

  27. The adventurers had passed the crossroads, and turned into a narrow track, whose capricious windings ran along rocks, which were almost suspended over frightful abysses.

  28. They set out again, still following the windings of the tract, which gradually grew steeper; and, after a very zigzag course, reached the terrace half an hour later.

  29. Three and a half leagues above the last of them is that of the Escaramunca, so called from the abrupt windings of the river among a thousand rocks and stoppages.

  30. These heights command a fine view of three windings of the river; at their base there are vestiges of one of the oldest and most extensive gold-washings, which yielded much treasure to its discoverer and proprietor, Senhor Mathias Barboza.

  31. From the mouth of the Paraniaba there is a navigation of four leagues to the small fall of Ilha, and fourteen leagues more, with frequent windings to that of Itahy, near a populous village, called Jundahy.

  32. And hurriedly turning his horse's head, the young man rapidly disappeared in the windings of the forest.

  33. When the last trooper had disappeared in the windings of the road three men left the shrubs that concealed them, and stood like three phantoms in the midst of the desolate plain.

  34. And, after pressing the hands the two hunters held out to him, he bounded on his horse, and soon disappeared in the windings of the canyon.

  35. The river formed the most capricious windings in the centre of a terrain diversified in a thousand strange ways.

  36. After uttering these words, the Unicorn bowed gracefully, and proceeded in the direction of the Paso del Norte, soon disappearing in the windings of the road.

  37. Nature and Heaven and Hell, but one or two salons, and so not without ingenuity draw themselves back into narrower and narrower windings of the snail-house.

  38. From Carghese to Calcataggio was a steep mount, for some time following the windings of the sea-shore, and then hanging above it, but never out of sight of the blue waters.

  39. Near here, the river Liamone, one of the most considerable in Corsica, throws itself into the sea, after its many tortuous windings among the intricate maze of hills around Vico.

  40. One or two more windings led us into the narrow gorge, walled in on either side by the Porto rocks.

  41. Soon we could see the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in the ravine.

  42. The road followed the windings of the draw; when she came to the first bend, she waved at me and disappeared.

  43. Then I was able to master and understand the difficult geography of Brisbane, caused by the windings in the river, which puzzle you as to which side of it you are on.

  44. Then I wandered through the gardens, where there are pretty walks following the windings of the Avon.

  45. The only object of interest was to watch and trace the windings of our road away among the yellow tufts.

  46. The windings of the river more than double the length of its general direction, and the turns are so sharp that after steaming a mile the traveller will often arrive at a spot not one hundred yards distant from where he started.

  47. The windings of the river enabled these men to keep ahead of the boat, a feat which, from their pace and manner, seemed the object they had in view.


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