"feel winded" is an acceptable phrase and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe the sensation after intense physical exertion. For example: "After running up the stairs, I felt winded and needed a few moments to catch my breath."
You feel winded, and shaken, and shamed.
When you finally do feel winded, slow down to a jog again, until your body feels better.
Mr. Sandler, who turns 36 today, has every right to feel winded.
I want to be able to be fit and not feel winded, heart rate low all the way" from the first hole through the 72nd hole in a tournament.
For President Bush, who is being pilloried by Democrats for an unemployment rate that remains above 6percentthethe question is whether business spending will pick up even if consumers feel winded.
You want to not feel winded when you climb stairs.
Because her two trials have been endlessly dissected by the news media, Ms. Knox's minutely detailed efforts in these pages to act as her own defense lawyer (including discussions of prosecutorial excess, botched police work and questionable DNA results) can feel long-winded.
Not unnaturally, one turns the pages, impatient for it to come; and then, when it is gone, one feels too winded - too punched - to carry on through the rest of it.
Despite my attempts at variation, I felt more winded than high when all was said and done.
The expanded telling of the tale at first feels long-winded and, in Christopher Cowell's rhyming translation, loses no opportunity for gags, leaving an uncertainty of tone.
There were striking gestures and plenty of drama, but the piece felt rather long-winded.
