Sentence examples for wind up winning from inspiring English sources
In the 1999 movie "October Sky," the teenage sons of coal mine workers in rural West Virginia build rockets and improbably wind up winning a national science contest.
"But hopefully we and all the shareholders will wind up winning the war by forcing the incumbent board to change its practices and work to restore the shareholder value".
Perhaps the most unexpected, for those accustomed to playoff systems in other sports in which advancing to the finals is predicated on winning, is that one player could wind up winning the FedEx Cup — and its $10 million bonus — without actually winning a tournament this year.
He did wind up winning that part in "To Die For," filming the movie in and around Toronto with Van Sant, Nicole Kidman and a rising actor named Joaquin Phoenix, who became his good friend and, eventually, his brother-in-law, after Affleck married Joaquin's sister, Summer Phoenix.
They are 40-36 (.526), and if they wind up winning the division, they would need to win at least four of their final five games to avoid finishing with one of the five lowest home winning percentages of any division champion since 1969, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"I wore jeans and wound up winning.
Brown wound up winning the silver medal.
The Flyers wound up winning, 7-4, so the ruling did not affect the game's outcome.
Last Monday, the Jets trailed Miami, 30-7, in the third quarter and wound up winning, 40-37, in overtime.
It might be surprising that a team down by just a touchdown — a close game, by any common description of it — winds up winning so rarely.
