1
: material (such as wire) wound or coiled about an object (such as an armature)
also
: a single turn of the wound material
2
a
: the act of one that winds
b
: the manner of winding something
3
: a curved or sinuous course, line, or progress
: marked by winding: such as
a
: having a curved or spiral course or form
a winding stairway
b
: having a course that winds
a winding road
Examples of winding in a Sentence
Adjective
a long and winding path through the woods
a winding staircase leads to the top of the lighthouse
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Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
One way that’s easy to manifest is through maximalist bedding with punchy colors, big stripes, and winding patterns.
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Noun
But Johnson’s show, which unfolds chronologically, feels like one winding, thorny, searching, implicitly memoiristic half-century-long process of thought—a record of growing up.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
In the following months, soldiers acclimated the horses to Arlington National Cemetery’s winding, hilly roads and the vehicles and people who visit the nation’s premier military burying ground.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 27 May 2025
Adjective
During his speech, Kissel made winding references to railroads, attorneys’ fees, scratch-off tickets, casinos, Hartford, car fatalities, troopers, eye-hand coordination, Jack LaLanne, Methuselah, the Bible, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
One way that’s easy to manifest is through maximalist bedding with punchy colors, big stripes, and winding patterns.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 25 May 2025
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“Winding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/winding. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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winding
1 of 2 noun
wind·ing
ˈwīn-diŋ 
1
: material (as wire) wound or coiled about an object
2
: a single turn of wound material
winding
2 of 2 adjective
: marked by winding: as
a
: having a noticeable curved or spiral form
a winding staircase
b
: having a course that winds
a winding road
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