Sentence examples for being wound up from inspiring English sources

We saved the company from being wound up — barely.

But all the time, the coil of tension is being wound up: the ending crackles.

Some journalists were undoubtedly being wound up to go on the hunt for me".

Quangos (the UK Film Council, the MLA) are being wound up.

Of course the "legacy" groups - the old bodies being wound up - haven't achieved all their aims.

The whole piece feels like you are being wound up for something at the end.

The trust is being wound up and is in the hands of accountants Begbies Traynor.

In his defence, he thought he was being wound up by a friend.

"I remember being wound up in a lot of knots at this point in my last Super Bowl.

"Hull City was four days from being wound up and going bankrupt in December 2010," Allam said Sunday.

Five Welsh regions were originally set up in 2003 - the Ospreys, Scarlets, Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons and Celtic Warriors with the latter being wound-up in 2004.