Sentence examples for the wind up from inspiring English sources

You put the wind up yourself, and your own memory.

"I knew I was out of the wind up for a long time.

"The cannonading has got the wind up in young Raleigh, sir," said the sergeant.

José Mourinho: putting the wind up his players with a half-time silent tantrum.

"Very effective pitching (with) all the wind up, all the different deliveries, it throws your timing off.

For a second I thought, 'who is behind the wind up?' because you don't get that lucky.

We're getting the wind-up".

The wind-up exploited two assets unique to 1980.

The wind-up speech came from Harriet Harman.

I remember playing a record of Lillibulero and dancing round and round the wind-up gramophone.

The ads featured innovations like the iPod music player that have replaced old technologies like the wind-up phonograph.