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stimulate sexually
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coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
wind your watch -
finally be or do something
he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart - give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
How To Use wind up In A Sentence
- And sometimes those mistakes wind up back to back on a Sunday afternoon.
- He could wind up in gaol.
- Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
- Any cottonmouth that came near me would wind up dead and I've brought home more than one fish with a bullet hole through it.
- If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief. Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
- The database schema needs to be developed in tandem with pseudocode, so that you don't wind up with orphaned code or database calls that are excessively resource-intensive.
- I remain honored to have had a long poem of mine that I really wanted published SOMEWHERE to wind up getting published in the CLIFFS Soundings Iit/art mag Norbert Blei mentioned in his essay on Henry Denander. Henry denander | 6 poems on writing, writers, fatherhood, marriage, jazz, jazz musicians, fame & much more « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
- Wind up your watch every day.
- As mentioned before, water can wind up in your gas or diesel fuel as a result of condensation in the tank.
- This is permanent four wheel drive with a free wheel overrun clutch in the front output to stop transmission wind up.