winding around

Example Sentences

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In tight quarters—city streets, parking decks, drive-thrus—the rear steering allows the Vistiq to go around corners like a cat winding around an owner’s ankles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Roads in the area are often mud tracks winding around mountains - while homes are made of clay, stones and mud.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

This binding theme was echoed in cords winding around slim-legged jeans and robust boots morphing into horse hooves, trailing tails, and as ominous broad leather coats.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

His distinctive brand of “Indigenized pop culture” is endowed with a slasher vibe, heightened by an easy-to-miss text in tiny letters winding around the sculpture’s base: “Your ancestors support your outrage and revolt.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

I glanced up at the big clock, whose minute hand never seemed to move in spite of the second hand winding around and around.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia