Sentence examples for was not winding from inspiring English sources

The week's operations, conducted with Chadian troops, were a further sign that the French military intervention against the jihadists in Mali, initially viewed as a quick strike, was not winding down soon.

Israeli officials said today that violence was not winding down in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip despite the truce agreement reached last week between the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, and the Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres.

"I didn't really move much" during the penalty kill, Stepan said, so he was not winded.

He went through all the defensive line drills and he was not winded so I wanted to push him.

Sure I was a bit sweaty, this is Georgia in the summer, but I was not winded, as I would certainly have been previously.

One tube was wrapped with 18 gauge insulated copper wire; the other was not wound and served as the sham exposure environment.

The demonstration wasn't winding down.

But the young neo-soul singer wasn't winding down backstage, sweaty from her sold-out show at the El Rey on Wednesday.

They're not winding down, either.

This war is not winding down.

No, I'm not winding you up.