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wend

[wend] / wɛnd /
VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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“Shekhar, look to your left,” Sanjoy says as the road on which they are traveling first starts to wend its way through woodlands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

District Court in Boston, that had blocked the administration’s slapdash deportations while legal challenges wend through the courts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

The park includes a collection of waterways that wend through marshes and islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Currently, most designs for Arctic shipping routes have vessels sticking close to the edge of the ice as they wend their way through the sea.

From Scientific American ● May 1, 2023

And there would wend Mitt, the child of ceaseless movement, leafy stick in hand, poking beneath the shady skirts of the trees for the smallest signs of life.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The exhibition, which wends through eight contiguous galleries, begins with a visual overture, seven pictures that preview what’s ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

As the case wends its way through the courts, the government has not yet made good on its threat to break up NCAR's various labs, which currently employ about 800 people.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Later the saxophonist José Carlos Cruzata Revé wends his way through a cohort of dancers, as if it’s right where he belongs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Driving west from El Hormiguero toward the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the road wends through ceibas, strangler figs, and sapodillas, a tree prized since Maya times for its chicle gum.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

Arthur was crying the same wends again and again, holding gruff Gawaine by the elbow and putting them into his ear.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The SUV drove me through an airport security gate and wended its way past rows of planes and runways before dropping me alongside the American Airlines 737 taking me to Phoenix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Khamenei's funeral procession wended its way slowly through central Tehran, from Imam Hossein Square in the east to Azadi Square in the west, on the last of three days of public mourning in the capital.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The Case of the Overinflated Basketballs wended its way through the New Jersey system.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

He wended his way around a tall mass of Bald Cypress tree parts sourced from a swamp in Louisiana.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

Sunrise was only an hour away, but the streets were crowded as she wended her way from East to West Stave.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

But as he so often does, Doncic went to work in the first quarter, terrorizing Lendeborg and the Warriors’ faithful with 21 points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

"I was one of those little kids that went to the training ground, to the ground - and I wanted a piece of that."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Allen went 64 yards for a touchdown to tie the score on a short pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Instead after expressing "huge pain and sadness" for the victims, Puente went on the offensive.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

But first things first: Sancho went to the stables to take care of his donkey.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

A proposal to ban social media for children under 15 is currently wending its way through parliament in France.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

Mr. Crytzer’s narrative hums along with the National Road’s traffic as he colorfully describes Pony Express riders, stagecoaches, Conestoga wagons and many thousands of migrants wending ever westward, feeding the nation’s economic and territorial growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Of the thousands of interorgan messages wending through the body, a few stand out as the most promising for therapies.

From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024

The bullet-scarred pickups raced the sunrise along a rough dirt road wending through a dense pine forest.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

But the well was endlessly deep, wending its way down through the cliffs toward the sea, and it took ages for coins to sink to the bottom.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff


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