Sentence examples for to wind a from inspiring English sources

Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.

Yet the route, an offshoot of the longer Lost Man Loop that begins at a mere 10,520-foot elevation, is only just over a mile round trip as it climbs about 500 feet to the lake -- just enough to wind a first-day hiker, but not so much as to cause heart palpitations.

They taught me many things: how to break down an onstage backline in under 25 minutes, the best way to wind a kettle lead, places never to go in Amsterdam and (related) why you should stop doing speed bombs before you turn green.

Molly Klopot, 88, who was also arrested in 2005, addressed the group, saying, "The grannies have a special responsibility to say, 'Get off your fannies and get on the street and stop this thing.'" She was not knitting, because she is legally blind, she explained, but planned to hold a skein or two if anyone needed to wind a ball of yarn.

In 1916, he joined the Hashemite forces and in 1917 began his exploits, including blowing up the German-built railway several times before leading the daring foray across the desert with the cry of, "To Aqaba!" Before setting off into the desert, Wa'el gives us a lesson on how to wind a scarf around our heads Bedouin-style, with one end hanging loose to wrap around face and nose.

This motion is used to wind a mainspring.

They sensed a chance to wound a departing President Obama, whose administration started the shift in 2014.

They were also told about the best place to wound a bear mortally -- the heart and lung cavity.

According to a Wall Street Journal profile two years ago, he used a pellet gun to wound a neighbor's Labrador that had veered onto his property once too often.

Then followed a line calculate to wound: "A public relations expert, as Mr Cameron once classed himself, would have handled this so much better".

Since the shooting, Newtown and Sandy Hook have become symbols of the horror that gun violence can cause and its power to wound a town.