Sentence examples for a winded from inspiring English sources

A winded Bergé chose to see this defenestration as an augury that the French capital had been waiting for him.

In the blasted joys and jubilant despairs of his subsequent shows, he sounded the new note of a winded civilization, uncertain even of its pleasure.

It's Justine Henin, the Belgian player, on a distant practice court, almost painfully intense, lost in some other world, methodically pounding balls back to a winded young man twice her size.

The show uses Ms. Kitt sparingly but well; amid the tumult, her stillness and command stand out....In "The Wild Party," Wolfe has given us a juiced-up sense of a winded civilization that seems momentarily to have claimed him.

From Pensacola to Key West, the entire sprawling enterprise of clerks and judges and observers came to a halt, whipsawing its participants and leaving much of Florida in a winded state of shock.

As he famously observed, "How can I find meaning in a finite universe given my shirt and waist size?" In the seventies and eighties, Allen, an entrepreneur of collapse, defined a winded America; now, as he slyly admits in "Writer's Block," two new one-act plays (at the Atlantic Theatre Company), fatigue has become an issue for him, too.

If that summary suggests a sort of epic, it is a short-winded epic.

If you're a little winded, you can get a drink of water or coffee in the cafeteria,' " said Mr. Domingo.

It also makes you a bit winded, which is always a good thing.

So reading "Committed" is a bit like listening to a friend (a long-winded one) trying to convince herself of something you know she doesn't mean.

Somebody with the yips might just be a little winded after walking up to the green.