Sentence examples for winding it up from inspiring English sources

There is a lovely lingering shot in the film where Goob picks up a spider by its thread, and keeps winding it up so he can carefully put it out of the window.

NO SOONER had Egypt lowered the drawbridge at Rafah, letting the people of the Gaza Strip cross into Egypt and from there to the rest of the world, than its ruling military council began winding it up again.

I've heard there's a reel going this way and another one winding it up on the bottom, but I've never seen it.

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Smart out of the gates, Stevens dictated a steady pace aboard Oxbow, gradually winding it up with a puppeteer's mastery before coasting to what was in the end a comfortable victory.

Petraeus had been charged with winning Obama's "good war", while Allen's brief was effectively to start winding it up honourably - although no one in the military would have put it that bluntly.

You wind it up, stick a pencil in its tiny retractable claw, and let it go.

I'm betting we'll wind it up soon.

"So I had to go myself and wind it up, wind it up to try to take the kick out of them".

In 1991 he wound it up after the price of salmon halved.

Despite being salaried workers for the organisation they wound it up in 1998.