How To Use Wound up In A Sentence

She wound up her dance routine with a wobbly pirouette and took a little bow.
Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
He wound up coining a phrase that is pithier in Russian, sums up so much of the national character and is a favorite saying here to this day. Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin's stolid prime minister, dies
He will not be fully wound up yet. The Sun
Rhosyn stood up as well, and walked up the stairs that wound up to her large room on the second floor.

His second wound up in Lytham's deep rough and was unplayable.
A new provision provides that the regulations do not apply where the outgoing employer is subject to proceedings whereby he may be adjudicated bankrupt or wound up for reasons of insolvency by order of the High Court.
The sound wound up in me, until it burst from my mouth.
These are wound up after five years and have reduced risk by broadening the scope of their investments. Times, Sunday Times
He reacts against the heresy of deism, the belief that God wound up the universe in the beginning but lets it run without intervention.
I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor.
After supper she wound up the gramophone to play the `Kreutzer" Sonata, and he told her about the story by Tolstoy, read on the troopship. THE OPEN DOOR
Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
Like Calder, he tried to memorize salient landmarks as they wound upward through the mountains. THE ENDLESS GAME
Ms. de Guitaut says that the third rose-cut diamond on the howdah blanket moves sideways to reveal the keyhole where it is wound up. A Palace's Small Treasures
She was wound up, jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle.
In the original, Job wound up with boils and I kept dreading what they'd rhyme it with… spoils?
In any case, I wound up spending two weeks in a psychiatric clinic, drugged into oblivious stupefaction, until I checked myself out.
Both partners of the marriage wound up unhappy.
`So you finally wound up your little tête-à-tête with the journalist? BEHINDLINGS
It's a goode olde tradition dating back to Chairman Newton (Vast Wasteland) Minow who wound up in the wasteland as corporate counsel for CBS. Marvin Kitman: One Wild and Crazy Guy
He is a galumphing, white academic from working-class London who somehow wound up a Rembrandt scholar.
The poor guy wound up with a slug in his stomach.
The second process was sort of the reverse: to take these graphic blow-ups and shrink them into icons (I wound up only using a few of these in the final book, but they were important to the process).
The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown Law School, she was a nonathlete who wound up rowing varsity crew in college, just through sheer force of will. Marshall Fine: Interview: Filmmaker Mary Mazzio helps kids beat the odds
When uncle Billy, in one of his characteristic empty-headed gestures, accidentally lost his score, the one that would redeem him from undeserved obscurity, something broke in him and he ran screaming out into the streets, meandering aimlessly, meaningless sounds burbling from his lips until he wound up here, on the bridge, teetering over the edge on the verge of a long, life-crushing fall into the dark waters below. The envelopes
The tip was not fully wound up when second in a Newbury qualifier for this final in November. The Sun
The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure.
On the other hand, while trying to twiddle the dial in FT's Jeep the other day I wound up listening to another local Christian station ... at first I thought I'd wandered onto a "light hits" station until I realized that the glurgy "my boyfriend" tribute being warbled by the singer was all about her boyfriend LutheranChik's "L" Word Diary
Take a day or two before you go away otherwise you'll be so wound up it will take a few days to unwind. The Sun
Similar to last year's party, I wound up with a ton of leftover beer and an extra cooler.
We wound up the day with a delicious meal at our hotel - the welcoming Beaulieu. The Sun
He tossed her a smile and strode top 8qg How ironic that in her bid for ersonal creative freewqd Laura, oblivious to the receptionist's flustered dom, she'd wound up chained to the most domineering, gratitude. autocratic, stubborn man on earth. Too Many Bosses
I wound up the watch and listened to it tick.
The programme was apparently wound up in 2006 and the records of its work have not been declassified. Times, Sunday Times
Well, the fighter wound up on the undercard of one of Basilio's fights in Syracuse.
The poor guy wound up with a slug in his stomach.
He went to San Francisco, applied for sailoring jobs, but wound up working in a department store during the Christmas rush. John Steinbeck
The effect is (in some sense) as much the cause of A as (in a different sense) A is of B. (Aside: this makes John Cramer's transactional quantum theory sound weirdly Aristotelian.www. npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw16. html) Consequently, when Hume and the other Early Moderns tossed out finality, they wound up tossing out causation as well and wound up with something weirdly like al-Ghazali's occasionalism. November 4th, 2009
He wound up the loose rope.
They wound up rolling around on the floor.
All of the three candidates wound up their month-long campaign on Saturday with motorcades and marches in the district and spent yesterday in quiet reflection and preparation for today's election.
Her long black hair was wound up into a chignon that day and it made her look older. YELLOW BIRD
On 3 June 1992 it was wound up by the High Court on a petition presented by the Bank of England.
I had wanted quiet time and wound up with jibber-jabber. Miracles, Inc.
It is also a story of budgetary and bureaucratic politics producing a device that, however miraculous, wound up being slower, balkier and less useful than it might have been. We Can See Clearly Now
Her previously steady job in a high street bank was wound up recently after branch ‘restructuring’.
Like Calder, he tried to memorize salient landmarks as they wound upward through the mountains. THE ENDLESS GAME
For that reason, the airplane wound up with side-by-side seating instead of the Air Force's preferred tandem seating.
We slogged across the pasture, truck tires slipping and sliding in the mud, and wound up walking the last hundred yards or so.
It's a fascinating story about how one of the founders of Discordianism was a friend to Lee Harvey Oswald and wound up being accused in various JFK conspiracy theories. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
I had been branded as lazy and irresponsible, so it felt right when I, too, dropped out of college and wound up living back in Raleigh.
I wound up wishing I'd never come.
Of course I zigged when I should of zagged and wound up 2 kilometres out of my way.
Marrow rich bone thus would have wound up in cooking pots, and after the marrow was consumed the marrowbones were discarded on site, ultimately ending up in the zooarchaeological samples recovered.
There could never be presented a subject less calculated to be wound up with a rhetorical flourish or to close in pompous affirmation than that which I have so temerariously brought before you this afternoon. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
We wound up at a cinema, seeing a third-rate action movie that gave us a lot of laughs in all the wrong places. GO!
He wound up in the same ward as Christian, in Cork University Hospital, brain-dead.
As a result, the likelihood that an elderly person wound up in a nursing home decreased.
I now removed the helices with their soft iron cores, and replaced them by two _flat helices_ wound upon card board, each containing forty-two feet of silked copper wire, and having no associated iron. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
I wound up deducing that Sherlock Holmes may be the world's most famous autistic. rounds up a number of critics 'obeservations on the gynophobia pageant. some interesting data that suggests, contrary to what I'd have guessed, that lots of women watch the superbowl. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Thus it was that I wound up postponing my degree and staying a fifth year to edit the sesquicentennial edition of the university's yearbook.
In other words, Braun is suggesting that the form of wearing the diaconal stole that we are so familiar with today -- on an angle, worn from the left shoulder to the right hip -- is actually a result (and now the only remnant) of the tradition of the folded chasuble when the stole was wound up with the folded chasuble in that manner. Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble
The Residuary Body would be wound up after three years and the levy was supposed to be reduced annually as properties were disposed of.
He called Johnny Fletcher a loudmouth, a weisenheimer and a few other names and wound up with: "Now, let's get down to business. The Laughing Fox
We eventually wound up staying in a little hotel a few miles from town.
Shelved product was getting dumped onto the market like toxic waste, and the big budget productions played it so safe that they wound up being less than garbage.
Children, shee fell downe in a swound uppon the shore. The Decameron
Under UK insolvency law they're last in line to be paid when businesses are wound up behind former staff, secured creditors, liquidators and the tax man.
By the time he was within a few yards I was getting slightly wound up and told him to ‘go away’ (I forget my exact words), but he left pretty smartish.
He gets so wound up when he's arguing.
He flitted about from obligatory flying jobs and mandatory staff tours and, eventually, wound up again crouched at his master’s feet in the Pentagon. Phony Veterans and POW's - Article Index
Although the impolite host wound up abruptly canceling the bonfire, there are several lessons one could garner from the barbecue that wasn't. Jorge A. Rey: Lessons From the Barbecue that Wasn't
The inquiry was reconvened in Hull specifically to hear the new evidence, months after it was wound up.
Lionel Drummond was charming and much appreciated everywhere; he retrieved Winn from the stable yard when no one could guess where he was, and was the first person to call Estelle, Mrs. Staines; he wound up the affair with a white satin slipper. The Dark Tower
Aucoin zipped home a high wrist shot to win that game and wound up scoring on his first five attempts -- all game-deciding goals. NHL.com Feature Stories
Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent.
Out of all that waste, only 13.6 percent of it was recycled — the rest wound up in landfills or was shipped to developing nations. The Problem with E-Waste | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
They sent him along to vacuum the carpets, but he wound up with his very own theatre to practice in.
Our tiny bus wound up through the Inguri Valley whose precipitous road hugged cliffs and ravines, worming through crude tunnels and skirting thick forests.
I always get the sense that when intense partisans of genre fiction, SF especially, get wound up about "literary fiction" and its discontents, they usually associate such fiction with "realism," against which all genre fiction transgresses in one way or another. Experimental Fiction
After punching him on the chin she wound up hitting him over the head.
‘Life is all about grasping opportunities,’ she says, which explains how she wound up owning a hotel.
Both partners of the marriage wound up unhappy.
Tracy and I walked the halls, and fucked and ate and sightsaw, and one day wound up in a great dark cavern of the winds, in which were suspended ten thousand interstellar warships, bristling with missile launchers and turrets and ray projectors. Asimov's Science Fiction
In point of fact, the broad "stole" is really not a stole at all then, but is worn over the stole proper of the deacon -- similar to how it was wound up with it before. Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble
The syntax is as elaborate and intricate as any Celtic decoration, and wound up with it if you follow all along, around, in, through and over is the meaning. Carrion Comfort « Unknowing
After the gate guards cleared us, the bus turned into a sideroad that wound down off the main road and ended up entering a big driveway that wound up a hill, passed a very military-looking building, painted white-flesh white with olive drab trimmings all topped with a steeple with a cross on top; Jesus, a church right here in the middle of this army base. Kill or Be Killed
As he wound up his speech, he raised concerns over the future of the Six Nations and whether it would become a two-horse race between England and France.
Yet the existing studies live in constant fear of being wound up, and are always a grant application away from closure. Times, Sunday Times
Household stuff: I agree yard sales are not worth the effort, I'd rather give the stuff to people who are thrilled to get it; altho, we did sell a few things privately to neighbors, and we did send a lot of stuff to auction, so at least it wound up in appreciative hands. A few questions
We wound up going to that poncy looking bar on New Oxford St under Centre Point where we drank and people-watched until it closed at 2.30 am.
Meggett wound up as a two-time Pro Bowl selection and ranks 37th in league history in all-purpose yards. After 25 years, Mel Kiper still owns NFL draft hype machine
Before he wound up against the bumper, Maxwell's son, Preston, had rolled off a "sleep positioner. Crib bumpers present risk and little likely benefit, safety advocates say
As the 747's engines wound up to high power, and the aircraft accelerated, sensors monitoring the cowl positions transmitted incorrect 'reverser' signals. HEADLINES
Unfortunately, I was in doubt a lot and wound up with a virtual school of commas swimming through my sentences.
It was a fully staffed division but we wound up closing it since we couldn't find a way to make money at it.
We eventually wound up in a super little hotel by the sea.
My friends in KP wound up in a group together * jealous* and a couple weeks ago they made this recipe for a baked chicken and pasta casserole. Archive 2008-10-01
Trivia note -- book D-292 under "potpourri" -- THE INSIDERS by Booth Mooney: Mooney wound up in Washington as an aide to LBJ and a lobbyist, but Robert E. Howard fans know him better as one of REH's youthful amateur-press associates in Texas in the '20s. Ace Books Image Lilbrary Update from Michael Smith
And I was there for the past two weeks, and I was on my way back from there and had the layover in Paris, and that's how I wound up on this flight.
Like Jitters, she had knocked around the world a bit and wound up in Dead Rat.
There are always shoals of whales about that part, and it is supposed a 'bight' of the cable lying off the ground got wound up like a rope round a screw. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
`And then," wound up the tantalizing Mary-Lou, `you'll be one large thrill from heels to head. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
The road wound up to a town cowering in folds of rock. Times, Sunday Times
BTW, when I was taking this photo with my self-timer, the settings were off and I wound up with this: Una LaMarche: Jean Shorts: A User's Guide
The Royal Scots and the Black Watch are among other famous regiments facing the axe, while at least one of the two Gurkha battalions is likely to be wound up.
While the Towers' full back line did make a ‘pig's ear’ of dealing with another garryowen floated into the square by the admirable Eoin which wound up in the net they were not in the least deterred.
I spent the afternoon working on a website rebuild which wound up requiring an animated banner.
The housewife's term for a ball of thread wound upon a central body, is a _bottom of thread_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
For a few minutes they both pretended, but soon enough they wound up at the base of the steel-staired tower. Weightlifting for Catholics
Every family should be provided with a coffee roaster, which is an iron cylinder to stand before the fire, and is either turned by a handle, or wound up like a jack to go of itself. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
It was not long, however, before I was interrupted by shouts and screams from that vicinity and on returning thither I found that Chu Chu, with the assistance of her _riata_, had securely wound up two of my neighbors to the tree, where they presented the appearance of early Short Stories of Various Types
The pitcher wound up and let loose a fastball.
a large audience, who, after having listened with an air of puzzled stupidity to the performance of the most beautiful _cavatine_ by the first singers of the day, would the next moment, one and all, be thrown into apparent ecstasy by a wretched ballad, wound up by the everlasting ponderous English shake. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
Newton's mechanical physics invited the Enlightenment metaphysic of the remote Watchmaker God who just wound up the universe and let it go.
Churchill's response was a two-day debate on the conduct of the war, wound up with a point-by-point rebuttal of his critics.
The sleeves would ride up your arms when you swung, the shoulders were too tight, and we wound up taking the blasted things off when we had a shot that really mattered.
Do not these causes and conditions, however complex, lead in the end to a mechanically predestined result, rather like an intricate clockwork wound up and set ticking?
So I wound up calling it a bestiary, which is just a book in which animals do things that people do. David Sedaris, Anatomizing Us In 'Squirrel' Tales
But, increasingly, to the point where we wound up with slightly more than half of people on welfare were long-term dependents who felt literally unable to come back into the mainstream of American life. President Remarks On Welfare To Work Partnership
Which is how I wound up at Panera with a little bit of time to kill the other day, and found the network to be hors de combat.
I wound up takin the mule back and given him half a box of thruderheads bullets to hep out on his gas. he said i would here from his lawyer but I an't scart cause raphie went to the kommuniti colege and got a dgree in criminal justis so he can handle it if he gets out in time. The Great Barrel Break-In Fad
The road wound up to a town cowering in folds of rock. Times, Sunday Times
The Advocate wound up releasing advance copies of the interview to the media over Thanksgivinga week before our board meeting.
Less footsure than Gorath and further encumbered by his bulky staff, it was a constant struggle for him to keep upright as they wound up the mossy steps…
She had wound up everything, every interest in London, had joined the local WVS, had become a busy countrywoman, and foster mother. THE GOLDEN LION
We started imitating rather than innovating and wound up making faux American also-rans.
I was hoping to find the issue he homaged in the post, but I wound up picking up the one before it instead. Hoods, escape artists, Spider-Man, Dan Clowes, and one mouthy dragon; I read a lot of comics this week and want to review them! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Calling in favors might have simplified the agent-finding process, but as you'll see, I wound up with the absolute perfect agent for me, so I think my method worked just fine For Writers : So you want to be a novelist?
It wound up being right across from a police station, and after a little while the fuzz came out and told us to move.
Our first attempt to fix the problem only made matters worse, and in the end we wound up re-cooking the whole meal and comping it.
Despite the fact that he was not fully wound up he certainly laid down a marker that he is going to be extremely difficult to beat in the event.
So last night, in between playing with the broken version of the Creature Creator, I wound up revising the hasty climax I had keyboarded to finish "Smoke and Mirrors," and fleshing it out a little, to the tune of 230 more words. He's laid back, never laying back--
Others are wound up with mothering tasks that have them running in all directions at noon.
Sure, sometimes the invective is a tad over the top, but I think the trolls just go away from that thinking they really got someone wound up and spinning. Think Progress » GOP plans on reintroducing legislation to ban and deport immigrants from ‘terrorist’ countries.
Our sails, wound up, lay without their use, and if at any time we bore but a Hollocke, or half forecourse, to guide her before the Sea, six and sometimes eight men, were not enough to hold the whip-staffe in the steerage, and the tiller below in the Gunner room; by which may be imagined the strength of the storm, in which the Sea swelled above the Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
Tens of thousands of copies wound up in the remainder bin at five bucks, except on the mainland where the same people that find Royal Canadian Air Farce "humourous" also found Tobin's error riddled cash grab "insightful". Archive 2006-04-01
The ET tube had wound up in the esophagus rather than the trachea, the usual result of tubing someone blind. DO NO HARM
Forced to flee her Kips Bay apartment near the East River, June Kim wound up without a place to stay on Saturday.
In the very situation I'm in at Vallelunga—a transient cornering maneuver with some speed, having to peddle the throttle to bring the nose into line—the Murcielago would be all wound up, its out-of-date stability software and AWD system agonizing between understeer and oversteer. Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart
And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance.
I was too wound up to sleep.
The entertainment consisted of comic songs, dances and acrobatic performance, and wound up with a screamingly funny farce.
He held the Marlins hitless through 5 1/3 innings but wound up allowing four runs (three earned) in seven innings. National League Team Notes
The search often wound up back at a railroad station bench.
We eventually wound up in a super little hotel by the sea.
They wound up paddling through an ice maze on a lake at the toe of a glacier.
jill" was the fourth overall draft pick, but i had drafted first! this was bullshit, but i was talking to eli manning's agent … i held no cards! can't front: i left the house and never wound up banging this girl. this story has meant nothing. Roissy in DC
Too many liberal and progressive activists misjudged the recall revolt and wound up on the wrong side of a populist tsunami.
After her airport job wound up, Mrs Miller returned to night school, to refresh her clerical skills.
Originally estimated to cost ￡30 million, the ship was budgeted at ￡40.8 million and wound up costing ￡42.7 million.
The president of this company was wound up in a scandal.
We eventually wound up in a super little hotel by the sea.
We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.
It bonged on the hour and needed to be wound up with a special key.
I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week.
I wound up the watch and listened to it tick.
And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance.
Here paths wound up into the mountains through pine forests that stretched toward the highest peaks. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
On several of the satellites, we wound up having to re-attach the wire leads in order to make good contact.
Ms. de Guitaut says that the third rose-cut diamond on the howdah blanket moves sideways to reveal the keyhole where it is wound up. A Palace's Small Treasures
In Syfy's new series Hollywood Treasure (Wednesdays at 10/9c), auctioneer Maddalena travels the world to save the cultural artifacts from film and history — including the original Wicked Witch of the West's hat from The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppin's bottomless carpetbag — that have wound up people's garages and basements. What's Become of Veruca's Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory?
She was the pluckiest girl I know," he wound up loyally. The Vision of Desire
He wound up drunk.
I was a fisherman myself before I jumped that train and wound up here.
These are wound up after five years and have reduced risk by broadening the scope of their investments. Times, Sunday Times
he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
all wound up for a fight
Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent. The Mysterious Island
He was to be placed with another inmate the next day, but wound up in a cell by himself.
Stanczyk, a married housewife from Rockaway Beach, was walking her terrier, Psotka - Polish for "prankster" - when she wound up in a confrontation with two uniformed officers from the 100th Precinct, Shaun Grossweiler and Richard DeMartino. Ann Stanczyk Claims NYPD Beat Her For Not Picking Up After Her Dog
Still wound up, years later, hammerless in my rented room, banging a nail with the spiked heel of my shoe, and tightening screws with a dime or a mat knife blade. Let Me Eat Cake
Eventually, we wound up radiographing it, and she had a large cyst in her sinuses on the left side.
It was so dark out in the halls that he did not see the door and wound up hitting his head against it.
The match layout trying to show both as being equals in power was not the type of farewell that the fans were hoping for, as indicated by the ravenous boos every time they wound up stalemating.
After punching him on the chin she wound up hitting him over the head.
We eventually wound up staying in a little hotel a few miles from town.
Having worked hard for many years, he at last wound up the first prize.
We wound up the day with a delicious meal at our hotel - the welcoming Beaulieu. The Sun
We wound up the day with a delicious meal at our hotel - the welcoming Beaulieu. The Sun
Toffan and McCaffery had entered Bosque Redondo mainly to serve as a pacemaker for stablemate Came Home, who wound up winning the race.
The ET tube had wound up in the esophagus rather than the trachea, the usual result of tubing someone blind. DO NO HARM
I got myself a bit lost and wound up looking at the Reichstag from a bit up the Spree River: Berlin
Remember the bohunk who painted the Sopranos' dining room and wound up getting all flirty with Carmela? Greg Olear: 8 Reasons Why Stay-at-Home Dads Are Better Than Stay-at-Home Moms
The boy was all wound up before the game.
When that did not work they wound up the spring in his back with a key and set him loose solo, whereupon he succeeded in looking like a mechanical toy.
Our operations in Jamaica are being wound up.
But BA's passengers said phooey to both sides, since they are the ones who wound up having to spend a weekend in Terminal 1.
He then took a victory lap around the floor of the arena and wound up having his picture taken with Ali.
The entertainment consisted of comic songs, dances and acrobatic performance, and wound up with a screamingly funny farce.
We were picked to finish seventh or eighth but we wound up fifth.
But the first time I tried it, I put the wrong foot in the right stirrup and wound up sitting backwards on the horse, watching it swat flies while the crowd around me cracked up laughing.
The American Idol season 8 runner-up released his debut album, For Your Entertainment; caused a ruckus with a sexually charged performance at Sunday’s American Music Awards; got disinvited from a scheduled appearance on Good Morning America; and then wound up as a last-minute guest this morning on CBS’ Early Show (where producers chose to blur out images of him kissing a male band member during his AMA set). Adam Lambert on his AMA vocals ('kind of a mess'), Elisabeth Hasselbeck ('we're very different'), and CBS' subtle message ('homosexuality is dangerous') | EW.com
Bio 2 wound up being a synthetic ecosystem, with many analog parts, such as Adey's marshland.
The business might one day be sold off, wound up or nationalised by the host government.
The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure.
Inveraray re-formed in 1957, but started facing difficulties again in 1972 and were officially wound up seven years later.
Militants' camps have never been completely wound up and infiltration takes place after the melting of snow at the passes straddling over the mountains.

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