Sentence examples for in need of winding from inspiring English sources

The watch turns out to be not broken but merely in need of winding, and when Ruth translates the characters engraved on the back — "sky" and "soldier" — it's clear that it must have belonged to a kamikaze pilot.

In the 2007-8 school year, Bilingual SEIT's evaluators found 434 children in need of services; 174 of them wound up receiving those services from Bilingual itself.

In need of money, the four wind up indebted to a tough-talking lady gangster (Richa Chadda), who holds court from a leopard-skin chair (shades of Bal Thackeray) and works out in a private gym full of mirrors (shades of "Lady From Shanghai").

It's neither an underrated gem in need of a critical second wind nor is it so bad that it survives as an ironic viewing experience.

The point is not to take over cities, Mr. Snyder said in an interview this spring, but to spare the state more financial distress and gauge fiscal distress in cities before they wind up in need of an emergency manager.

Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, has defended changes to the law governing emergency managers as ways to spare Michigan from more financial distress and to gauge fiscal distress in cities before they wind up in need of an emergency manager.

We were tweaking like a couple of meth-heads in need of a fix as we drove around winding ocean cliff roads, barely glancing at the perfect views around every turn.

The United States has refused to agree to firm time frames for reducing agricultural subsidies, for reducing the number of people in need of sanitation and for embracing wind and solar power, among other things.

It's the go-to spot for anyone in need of a new Nun-zilla wind-up doll or "Polly, the Insulting Parrot".

Newly constructed offshore wind farms churn unconnected to an energy grid still in need of expansion.

Free wind finder apps can assist in pine weevil flight tracking and help map areas in need of pruning.