Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a winding manner; with curves, bends, or turns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a winding manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
winding motion or pattern.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And this brings me at long windingly last to my pesto.
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Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as maya-mutras the obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswasty timberman torch-priest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the wood that Jove bolt, at his rude word.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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But in other years the long descent into the depth of winter is taken not with a jump like that, but gently and softly and windingly, with a great many glimpses back at the summer, and a good deal of leaning on the arm of the sun.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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The path was cut windingly through the lofty, dark, and closely serried trees, which vibrated like chords under the soft bow of the wind.
The Trespasser 2003
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The path was cut windingly through the lofty, dark, and closely serried trees, which vibrated like chords under the soft bow of the wind.
The Trespasser 1907
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A long trail of softly scintillating light followed the boat windingly.
Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Maksim Gorky 1902
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From the little cove where his boat-house stood a road swept windingly to his house through a garden of luxuriant verdure.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Before long, they came to an old broken gate, half open; it was the entrance to a narrow cartway, now unused, which descended windingly between high thick hedges.
In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880
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Diamond stepped on shore, and without looking behind him began to follow a natural path which led windingly towards the top of the precipice.
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 1864
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But in other years the long descent into the depth of winter is taken not with a jump like that, but gently and softly and windingly, with a great many glimpses back at the summer, and a good deal of leaning on the arm of the sun.
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