How To Use Winded In A Sentence

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The language is out of condition: -- fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric. Famous Reviews
Which is a long-winded way of saying that human nature will play a part in deliberations. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed to Jordan that he was going into another long-winded speech.
Okay, Peter, I'll give you a break from my long-winded questions about your books.

Evolution is not a long-winded way of making human beings. Times, Sunday Times
I thought it was a lovely example of the long-winded way in which such publicity material was once worded.
Upon my poetical veracity I do not see the strength of your objection, but as matrimony is a very tender subject, as well as a longwinded one, I had better give you Mr Pitt's answer when he did not choose to give any, 'I have not made up my mind.' Letter 265
None of the youngsters made long-winded speeches, but they said it all through sprightly dances that were a celebration of life and an exhibition of talent.
As she picked the apple up, her lover panting and almost winded touched the goal.
Happily she was winded rather than wounded and suffered no more than bruising.
Winded, I curl into a ball on my side, tip my head back and gasp for breath.
In another room, long-winded speeches are given.
The friends stopped again -- poor, short-winded bodies -- on the crest of the low hill and turned to look at the wide landscape, bewildered by the marvelous beauty and the sudden flood of golden sunset light that poured out of the western sky. In Dark New England Days
A band of about thirty spearmen, with a pennon displayed before them, winded along the indented shores of the lake, and approached the causeway. The Abbot
Your mainsail changes color if you are being blanketed or backwinded by a competitor.
He landed on the hard, trodden earth and lay, winded, half-conscious. TANK OF SERPENTS
King, known for his trademark electric hairdo, is perceived by most of the public as a clown-like showman who, though long-winded, is an entertaining character.
On September 15th we reached the top of the ascent which, from its many ups and downs, had often made us puff and blow as if broken-winded. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
We've all had to put up with long-winded legal writing.
Horses that are lame, broken-winded, and vicious, pull the great bulk of all the weight that horses pull.
The legal process is long winded; it can outlast the life of the patent.
In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
The punch in the stomach completely winded me.
I say, I beg your pardon, frightfully — I'm afraid I'm bein 'beastly long-winded. Whose Body?
Winded for a moment, he pulled himself up, damned himself for an old fool, and tried to get back to his feet.
Grunting in acknowledgement, too winded to speak, Alex pressed forward.
A first contact with John Ashbery's poems often throws readers into confusion with his multifarious, usually longwinded and discursive, verses which seem to have no distinctive characteristics at all.
Nor should it be forgotten, that in order to be in thorough efficiency the horses must not only be well fed and in good condition, but at the same time so seasoned by toil that they will go through their work without the risk of becoming broken-winded. The Cavalry General
Then while he sat on a beer keg until he should be in breath again the unwinded Spike would skip the rope -- a girl's skipping rope -- or shadow-box about the room with intricate dance steps, raining quick blows upon a ghostly boxer who was invariably beaten; or with smaller gloves he would cause the inflated bag to play lively tunes upon the ceiling of its support. The Wrong Twin
This conveyance appears to be a longwinded fee simple determinable, which are generally valid and enforceable. Saltzman looking for easy way out on Paulson stadiums? (Jack Bog's Blog)
Sherringham sounded only slightly winded, though there was a catch to his voice.
The Fat Boy, a rotund, short-winded little fellow, better dressed than the others although his shoes were not matching. Stan the Killer
Her mother had recently died and she was winded with shock and grief.
With most hotels, booking online is a long-winded process. Times, Sunday Times
By the time we got across the Anzac Bridge, I was winded.
The illness certainly affects a patients' quality of life because they often wake up short-winded, experience severe coughing or are hit by a heavy sensation in the chest.
Winded, she would have gone down had he not caught her.
The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
You may get winded easily as your uterus expands beneath your diaphragm, the muscle just below your lungs.
Long-winded sentences and pedantic phraseology have yielded place to brief reports.
Your post features both long-windedness and pomposity in abundance, which is fitting because those two qualities also comprise the left foot and right foot of your idol Obama, in that they are his feet of clay. The Early Word: Leftovers - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In a long-winded speech peppered with German phrases no one else understood, he made it sound as if television was right up there with sharing dirty needles or deforestation.
Actually, there is no way a url can be "unwinded" from it's 32-bit hash. סטארטר
They are placing astrology on the same level as fantasy, which makes their long-winded obscurities largely redundant.
The whole process is incredibly long-winded.
At last I wore him clean out, and he lay down, broken-winded, broken-hearted, hungry, and thirsty. A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE
Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Spring can really hang you up the most were more than an exercise in poesy; someone who was a lot of fun, but who may have waited for some calls that never came as men chose other leggier, prettier girls for—as Cleveland Amory recounted of a young man from Boston backed by a long-winded reference—breeding purposes. The Sad Songs of Spring
Doran's pen decorated the page with ragged arrows, wide-mouthed circles, thick black underlines, until at last, quite winded, he looked up to discover daylight gone and the piazza filled with walking shadows. Two Poets
The fall had been heavy and for the moment she couldn't speak, winded as well as shocked. WIDOW'S END
One could not walk the sidewalks casually; one pushed one's way, or sidewinded, through throngs of well-dressed gentlemen and ladies and loud-mouthed costumed rowdies.
They are all found in botanical works under long, clumsy, Latin appellations, very little fitted for every-day uses, just like the plants of our gardens, half of which are only known by long-winded Latin polysyllables, which timid people are afraid to pronounce. Rural Hours
The only thing worse than a nutter is a long-winded nutter, and seeing how much Levi seems love his own writing and voice, he definitely fits into the latter category. BobFromBrockley
The promenade of Dasve town at Lavasa became a mini carnival venue where participants unwinded, rejoiced and rejuvenated. India Press Release
Since I wasn't as fit as he was, I couldn't keep up because I was so easily winded.
Her eyes went round, and she spoke in a rapid, short-winded, staccato voice. Best Kept Secrets
Instead of a boring long-winded explanation, let's just leave it by saying that the real GDP is the actual GDP minus the growth attributed to inflation.
His last valet was a big, foundered, short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him Les Miserables
Despite these polemics coming into play, the pair of us have managed to get along famously and have exchanged some very long-winded email arguments covering not just politics, but life in general.
That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.
I would get so short winded, after just walking a few feet that I didn't want to go anywhere.
That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.
He admits to finding the Buddha's dialogues ‘long-winded and repetitious,’ with ‘little of the artistry so evident in Plato.’
Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
He carried his Australian rules passion beyond school into club matches until the day he was shirtfronted and badly winded by an opponent.
Not in the least winded, Anderson segued into John Coltrane's "Central Part West," a cooled-down proposition not without a segment so challenging that Anderson's fleet tooting brought to mind an amazing display of broken-field running. David Finkle: Every Street's a Jazz Boulevard in Old New York
Sorry to be so longe winded, i love reading all your finds and only recently could give you something i thought might interest you - write me and give me your thoughs about this might be a presentation coin - thank you — chuck [email protected] Unusual Items: Remarkable Double Denomination Mule 1993-D Cent with Dime Reverse : Coin Collecting News
The farmer had paused over Fred's respectable though broken-winded steed long enough to show that he thought it worth consideration, and it seemed probable that he would take it, with five-and-twenty pounds in addition, as the equivalent of Diamond.
For a few minutes I am too winded to notice anything.
I suddenly felt winded, like someone had punched me in my stomach.
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. Swallow: a tale of the great trek
Levi was well-known for his impatience with long-winded, solipsistic or obscurantist prose.
I lay on the ground a long time, winded and feeling blood running down my face.
The script punches you, knuckles out, between the shoulder blades - you laugh as though you have been winded.
The solicitors told us we would need to have the deeds reconstituted, quite a long-winded process. Times, Sunday Times
For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, for all her pathetic redundancy, there is still so much that she will never, ever articulate.
The interview with the maestro is long-winded and unedited, as he rambles on about everything from his directorial technique to his upbringing.
The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.
Just seemed like your typical long winded blather, which is usual for you. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 5, 2006
This seems like a really longwinded way to say 'bring back precasting.' The Drop Kick
Winded, her face crushed against the soft warmth of his coat, she felt icy breath whispering over her forehead.
We did take the dogs for a short walk yesterday and I was winded after 1/2 a mile. It was disappointing, but it was nice to get outside.
Sorry to be so longe winded, i love reading all your finds and only recently could give you something i thought might interest you - write me and give me your thoughs about this might be a presentation coin - thank you — chuck [email protected] Unusual Items: Remarkable Double Denomination Mule 1993-D Cent with Dime Reverse : Coin Collecting News
She didn't seem the least bit winded, though Shannon felt as if a knife were stabbing into his lungs, trying to puncture his chest cavity so that all the air would escape and he would suffocate.
He is evasive and answers the most simple questions with long winded often irrelevant explanations.
He was getting winded, and Liz kept moving faster in her excitement at seeing the lighthouse.
Something of the rhapsodic style of the first set of these Strauss songs, not to mention their symphonic piano accompaniments, released a superabundance of energy within Kaufmann, and we discovered new dimensions in his artistry: a long-winded breath control, his openhearted romantic fervor, a darkish head tone, and a kind of pure ecstasy in his delivery. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
Kraemer's reply was characteristically long - winded but nevertheless clear and direct.
All dignity gone, all control gone, because you are winded and gasping for breath.
The audience tuned out when the speaker began his long-winded speech.
If he gives long-winded answers, you could ask three questions.
The guy thinks that attending court receptions with boring old guys reciting long-winded speeches is fun!
I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all.
These vigils aren't rallies or places to give long-winded speeches.
I remember we took the carriages from the Vladimirsky; they were very old, and painted blue, with round springs, and a wide box-seat, and bundles of hay inside; the brown, broken-winded horses that drew us along at a slow trot were each lame in a different leg. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
But even though Becca is given some depth through much - sometimes longwinded - description of her relationship with her ex-husband, it seemed that her character was less of a detective and more of a bystander. REVIEW: Alien Crimes edited by Mike Resnick
If you need to explain something, try mocking it up and prototyping it rather than writing a longwinded document.
This method is, however, a little long-winded if you only want to edit a couple of lines.
His speeches tend to be rather long-winded.
Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.
The rupee climbed in the last half hour of trade on Friday, rising from an intra-day one-week low, as banks unwinded long dollar positions on speculation RBI may raise rates soon. The Economic Times
Instead of hitting the man's chest, Carl winded him again by hitting him in the stomach.
Allison could tell he was one to give long-winded speeches.
Any parks footballer will tell you how painful that can be and I was badly winded which was why I went down.
The object is to eliminate long-winded confabs where participants pontificate, play Angry Birds on their cellphones or tune out. No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs
Well, there are some other things, but - damn! - am I long-winded, or what?
It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all.
Diana sank into the chair and waited until a winded Myrna Louise Rivers was finally able to speak. KISS OF THE BEES
Kay felt inexplicably winded, as if she'd spent the last hour explaining a very simple concept to a very thick-skulled idiot.
Dick chased it, and nen it unwinded itself and creeped under a big rock. Her Prairie Knight
She moves slightly, which is the only sign that she's okay, and coughs a bit, obviously winded.
Jeffries spoke for well over an hour, without pause, without notes, as fluent and long-winded as Fidel Castro.
You get short-winded easily and you just aren't feeling your best.
The horse turned out to be broken-winded and Roche refused to take it back.
The average life of even the sturdiest horses used in this work is six months, for in this length of time they either become broken-winded… or are driven crazy by the frightful heat.
It is a long-winded and messy process, but it is going the right way. Times, Sunday Times
They've taken turns dominating each other, alternating sweeps and blowouts like a true slugfest in which one heavyweight's attack leaves him winded and vulnerable to the other's pulverizing blows.
Kay felt inexplicably winded, as if she'd spent the last hour explaining a very simple concept to a very thick-skulled idiot.
At Bootham Crescent in August 2001, after an innocuous challenge by City defender Mike Basham, Lockwood thought he had been badly winded.
These were, in general, ancient inhabitants of that region; born, and bred there from boyhood. who had long since become wheezy and asthmatical, and short of breath, except in the article of story – telling; in which respect they were still marvellously long – winded. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Going to court is an expensive, long-winded and capricious way to resolve disputes. Times, Sunday Times
A little long winded, but the speech was punctuated with a lot of applause, which suggested that a lot of the military brass in attendance support him.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that tonight's programme is almost a joy to watch. Times, Sunday Times
long-winded (or windy) speakers
Nick was staggering, winded, knowing that they were chasing him across the open land. THE WHITE DOVE
Stodgy, long-winded writing is still wasting time and money and cheating people of the chance to make an informed decision.
The lung of a long-winded fox is used as a cure for asthma, the yarrow is used to cure jaundice, agaricos is used for blisters, aristolochia (the fruit of which has the form of a uterus) is used for the pains of child-birth, and nettle-tea for nettle-rash. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Mr Wilkinson then felt a second blow in his ribs which winded him.
I'm getting a lot of emails that carry long-winded disclaimers on them these days and quite frankly it annoys me.
His speeches tend to be rather long-winded.
Having to replace a motherboard usually necessitates a long-winded process of reinstalling an OS, programs and data.
But if you do, you can have enough respect for the rest of us to actually post a few concise arguments here, not just paste in marginally-to-not-at-all relevant links to long winded arguments you made elsewhere 10 years ago. Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation
And the bright thrums hang unwinded by the maiden's weaving-stock: The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
He somehow managed to stay standing despite being winded by the blow.
Nick was staggering, winded, knowing that they were chasing him across the open land. THE WHITE DOVE
She's at my door window, wheezing, winded, fogging the glass.
[Reads] ‘I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity:’ he sure means brevity in breath, short-winded. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
In the old days, legislators delivered long-winded, convoluted, extemporaneous speeches from the floor.
Pyetushkov began smoking; the pipe wheezed like a broken-winded horse. A Desperate Character
I can't walk across the street without feeling winded.
The blond-haired, almost godlike figure, meanwhile, stood motionless, impassive and unwinded, like a great tiger poised to pounce.
Toroidal composite vessel winded with fabric is a new kind of mechanical pressure vessels.
The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences.
The Roundtable is fun to participate in and you can be as long or short-winded as you like. The DVD Trash Roundtable
But by degrees the long reel unwinded itself; -- angel of light, and all. Orley Farm
In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
I travelled home via an indirect, long-winded route simply because it was sunny and I had time to spare.
This whole process appears long-winded and complicated but once you are familiar with it you can employ the strategy very quickly.
Try to walk a mile or climb a few flights of stairs without becoming winded or feeling heaviness or fatigue in your legs
So without being long winded, this case does not have the cooling it would take to make me feel comfortable about it.
The brewer was large, raw-boned, and round as a butt of beer, but very fat, unwieldy, short-winded, and phlegmatic. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
He seemed as fresh and unwinded as if he had gone no farther than the grove, and he wore, more than ever, his air of cheerful assurance. Sawtooth Ranch
Though short-winded, I was ready for the second pass.
She had cringed at the wheeze of the roundabout as it winded to a stop.
But It should be long-winded one, the above multi-site survey, but only after I get a accurate information, not false false name, otherwise it will stink million left out, huh, huh!
The Chinese real estate has gone through a winded historic development.
After some incredibly long-winded backstory, which is entirely skippable, players are thrown into a prologue/tutorial.
All of this wailing is a long winded way of saying that, this morning, I cut 10k worthless, horrible, painful words out of my manuscript. It’s hard to walk the highwire with no tension «
I was hoping to slow it down a bit but I wasn't thinking straight because I was just winded from all the activity.
I have fought off the temptation to preface my answers with a long-winded introduction.
The whole process is incredibly long-winded.
Only slightly winded but looking dewy, Rockelle and her friends, seemingly as innocent as everyone not involved, had melted into the inner fringe.
He was momentarily winded by the blow to his stomach.
It seems to be rather long-winded to get anywhere. The Sun
Winded, Tabitha gasped, a horrible gagging croak.
All three were somewhat winded from their exertions.
Next he had to sit through a long-winded speech for work.
We were winded by the steep climb.
In fact he went blind writing adolescent plots to rule the world in tedious and long winded detail under the bedclothes. Archive 2007-09-23
There were no long-winded speeches boasting of his winning record or what he would do to his next opponent.
Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
During the delivery of this little speech, uncle Jacob had been sobbing and panting like a broken-winded horse; and when Mary had done, he rushed up to her and kissed her, and held her tight in his arms. The Paris Sketch Book
Such of his sermons as are still extant are prosy, long-winded, dogmatic absurdities, overloaded with periphrastic illustrations in scriptural language. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
The whole thing is long winded, cheesy, shmaltzy and obvious. UP soars at Annies…Oscar(s) Next? – Collider.com
She couldn't bear any more of the main character's long-winded rants about pineapples.
Robert was severely winded, and James eventually closed out a 4/3 win on the 16th.
Took a while to get going after being winded but exploded in the second half.
Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever she brought their conversation to a subject he found interesting, he gave longwinded discourses verging on speeches.
He was momentarily winded by the blow to his stomach.
That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Much Ado About Nothing
Which is a long-winded way of saying that the differences are political and cultural. Times, Sunday Times
Norman had always fostered a certain self-indulgence in respect of his chain of thought, and this reverie was no exception — in other words big on panoramic sweep, but as some of his colleagues regretted, rather long-winded. Archive 2009-05-01
Had I not contrived to pass off a poggado bav engro — a broken-winded horse — at a fair, I at this moment should be without a tringoruschee piece in my pocket. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
There have been many similar wine-fuelled conversations, conspiratorial chats over coffee, or long-winded email dialogues.
F**k the Army (brought to you by the US Army) says: b-cup; Are you trying to be a long-winded terrorist apologizer? Think Progress » Gingrich Says Democrats ‘Have To Take Some Moral Responsibility’ For Far-Right Death Threats
The cougar sat about thirty yards away, acting uninterested and unwinded. GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL
Once at the top, climbers quickly forget how winded they are when faced with magnificent views of mountains and the frozen sea where seals, penguins and pods of killer whales can be spotted.
I don't have a set of comparisons like, "Well, I tend to be more winded than X when we're done with a long run together, but I'm faster on sprints," or, "I always master forms faster than Y, but Y's sparring is way better than mine. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
At the end of the reel I was winded and tired, breathlessly cheering and clapping with the rest of the people.
Despite being winded moments earlier, Banstead keeper Paul Borg also made a fine save to deny Filler.
He was thrown back on a long-winded explanation of the Italian saga. THE GUARDSMEN
She was winded by the time we reached the end.
The punch in the stomach completely winded me.
Chamberlain's body fat was 24.6 percent and he was easily winded.
But come on - he can be so longwinded, lugubrious, and self-indulgent.
I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all.
He got winded at a couple of points in the fight.
I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all.

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