How to Use wind up in a Sentence

wind up

verb

• If a date winds up happening in the middle of all of that, great.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• Mucha ended up making nine saves to keep Bartlett in the game, which wound up in a 0-0 tie.
  — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• But the case could well wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court depending on how the process plays out.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• The Shaft soundtrack reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and wound up with a Grammy nod for album of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• The three other men who did wind up on the ballot are little known.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• And all the while, the pair wound up learning a useful tip to help resolve conflict.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
• With all eyes on Sosa, the Cubs star wound up hitting only one home run in 11 swings.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• The bad news is that every year, a handful of people do wind up on the wrong end of those very long odds.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 July 2023
• The metaphor applies to the opera’s theme of fate but also the production itself, which starts off shaky and winds up in a ditch.
  — Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• Evan Carter smashed a ball off the warning track in center to open the inning and wound up with a triple when Ceddanne Rafaela wiped out on the dirt.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Policies that wind up choking off the export of EV wrecks would in some ways be a shame, Slattery says.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• If a parent goes to college, their child is more likely to wind up on a campus.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• One thing leads to the next, which is to say the unlikely duo wind up with a dead body on their hands and a snoopy neighbor (Judith Light) to ward off.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
• But the new findings demonstrate that heavy metals in cannabis plants can also wind up in the human body.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Everybody winds up leaning on the thing that people like.
  — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2023
• In the mid-19th century, poor Angelenos could wind up in Ft. Moore Hill.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Link wound up on the government’s blacklist — he is banned from China.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
• Which project winds up in first position for those stars at the top of the call sheet, and what does that mean for everyone else below them?
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• Whenever the appeals court rules, the issue could still wind up before the Supreme Court, which could mean more delays.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• Ross, on unfamiliar turf with the game, winds up black-eyed, broken and slumped on the Central Perk sofa.
  — Shane C. Kurup, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
• Still ahead by a pair, Devin Williams took over for the ninth and was greeted by a shot off the bat of Dansby Swanson that hit him in the right shoulder and wound up as a base hit.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Doute wound up with a cameo on her old show, and Taylor is slated to make an appearance on season 11.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2024
• After all of the shuffling of inmates and staff, Alabama will wind up with more prison space overall.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• The family wound up emigrating to the United States in 1949, when Thorn was still a toddler.
  — Frederic J. Frommer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• While Stange was away, Haag wound up plotting every pair of remainders — about 120.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• The investigation then winds up not just what happened to Joy.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• Fox wound up scraping his shooting thumb on the dunk, which required treatment and a bandage during the fourth quarter.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 24 Mar. 2024
• Even though the end result wound up being the same for Barrow, the roster is vastly different compared to a year ago.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Last year, the Daytime Emmys wound up being pushed six months to December, due to the Hollywood strikes.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
• Much of Holcim’s global leadership team wound up being stuck in Switzerland for the better part of a year.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024