How to Use winch in a Sentence

winch

1 of 2 noun

• Heck, the winch even lifted it up in a tree!
  — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 8 Apr. 2026
• Crow’s feet are smoothed with the winch of a hair elastic.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Sep. 2025
• The winch presumably would drag the drone across the deck and up the ramp.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The front skid plate doubles as a sturdy mounting point for a winch.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2018
• Also, a winch that resists water will keep out dust and grit.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Sep. 2020
• Firefighters used a winch to move the car and then broke out a window to reach her.
  — Mike Clary, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 May 2017
• If things get too sticky, there's a Warn Zeon winch to tow it to safety.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2023
• How to find the best portable electric winch for use in the field, on the road, or at home.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 25 Sep. 2020
• The car comes with an operational front winch, spare tire, and even pop-open doors and front hood.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• At Armstrong, the winch must do all the work of opening and closing.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• Here are some notes on choosing the best electric winch for your purposes.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 25 Sep. 2020
• In the meantime, there were also several tows from and winch-outs at the scene.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2021
• Pasquale and Giuseppe were lynched first, strung up in a slaughter yard on a winch used to skin cattle.
  — Frank Viviano, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Buying a present for someone who has a winch installed on their 4×4?
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2020
• Video from the scene also showed officers pulling a black bag out of the trunk using a winch.
  — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
• To retrieve the kite, the owner or crew uses the electric winch to pull it above the front deck.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
• Now there was a pause while the second winch was activated to pull the train backwards.
  — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2022
• Inside the tongue box is the battery, storage for the winch and remotes, and enough room to store the wheel straps.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2022
• The process took a day once salvage specialists arrived with the same winch system.
  — Alex Horton and Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
• Cawthorn is helped onto the kayak and activates the winch, which pulls him to the middle of the water.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 29 June 2020
• The winch is torn from the boat and tumbles into the ocean, landing on top of the dive cage and blocking the cage's door.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
• The winch on the power block strains to pull it up over the gunwale and to the hopper, where the fish are dumped for gutting.
  — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• When the bear was taken from the ship, its fur was matted with grease and oil from playing with the ship's gears and winches.
  — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Benny’s Tow Service came from Chester and fished us out with a hook and a winch.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
• To handle the bashing, Rockstar fabbed up some skid plates and tucked a Warn winch in behind the grille.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
• Don’t ever try to pull a big root system out with a truck unless there is a winch attached to the truck and that is what is doing the pulling.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2023
• The winch sucks in the wires like spaghetti, until the trawl doors clang loudly into the Launch Out’s hull.
  — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• Each of these visits is an elaborate production of cranes, winches, cables and ropes.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• As the terrain was inaccessible by foot, rescuers used a 60-foot winch to pull her out of the ravine.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 8 June 2018
• The set comes with a number of snap-on extras, like a bumper with a winch, an engine snorkel, a roof rack with work lights and spare tires for the hood and rear door.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2023

winch

2 of 2 verb

• The movers deposited him in the pool and winched open a gate at the far end.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Her main function is to winch things into and out of the water.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Cane poles aren’t just for winching trophy bream out of the water.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2020
• Loading a dart, winching back the bows, and taking aim means a lousy rate of fire.
  — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
• That keeps it smooth at any speed without sacrificing the torque needed to winch on big fish.
  — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The boys winched the carcass up to the Jeep and likely had backstraps for supper.
  — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
• The Scots saw the gigantic beams and basket winched into place.
  — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
• With one of those, if a component fails while winching, the line will simply fall to the ground without killing you.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
• An employee of a business can now take a Wing bag and put it onto a hook which is winched up to the drone.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2017
• The jungle was so dense that the rescuers’ helicopter had nowhere to land and had to winch the children up by rope, one by one.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 June 2023
• The 21-year-old Air Force medic chose to drop down and help winch soldiers up to the chopper.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2020
• Make sure the boat’s drain plug is in place, and that all winch/transom tie-down straps are removed before backing the rig into the water.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 1 July 2022
• The body, found near a stream about 1½ miles from the resort, was winched up and then flown by helicopter to a hospital, police said.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The two were winched to the helicopter and transported to a Swedish hospital but later died.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 1 July 2023
• On shore, winches like the ones that raise and lower the sails can also generate electricity to charge cellphones.
  — Jimmy Golen, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
• Marshalls can be seen running to his side before the Mitsubishi is winched onto a recovery truck and taken away.
  — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• For some expeditions, scientists plunged boxes to the bottom and winched them back to the surface, much like an arcade claw game.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• When the rescues began at last, at least one child who was plucked out of the car could be seen in video footage hanging at the end of a cable as he was winched up to the aircraft.
  — Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Slowing to a halt, the vessel sways and sea gulls circle while the traps are winched on board and emptied, with shiny black lobsters and muddy brown crabs pulled free and stored on deck.
  — Stephen Castle Andrew Testa, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Hazra and the guides made their way to the icy landing spot above Camp 2, where a helicopter winched Hazra to Base Camp.
  — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• The man was winched up by the helicopter and immediately flown to Kathmandu, followed by the body of the woman.
  — Binaj Gurubacharya, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• German military personnel and fire crews were still working to winch cars and lorries off a submerged highway on Sunday.
  — Washington Post, 18 July 2021
• The winch-and-ramp combo might not be able to launch drones much heavier than a TB-2/3 unless the drone itself packs more horsepower.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The 25-year-old was winched from the forest by a rescue helicopter which took her to the town of Tully where she was assessed at a hospital.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2018
• Once the fighters' mission was complete, the 747 would winch them back aboard, where the pilots could rest and even sleep in their own quarters while the planes were refueled and rearmed.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
• An officer was lowered from the helicopter and, just after midnight, safely winched the cyclist out — bringing the tense situation to an end.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
• As a tow truck came to winch the car out of the canal, Wilson's father, notified of the accident, began cruising the nearby streets, looking for his missing son.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 24 Dec. 2012
• Many of Lewis' rescues involve winching victims back out of the vertical pits that distinguish Southeastern caves.
  — Bo Emerson, ajc, 10 July 2018
• Before heading out, some fishermen pick up boxes from the island's fishing companies to pack their catch which, in the capital of Nuuk, is winched from the boat to the fish factory.
  — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
• The brute-simple method, which combines a winch-and-pulley system with an bow ramp, could help the Turkish navy transform its new assault ship Anadolu into the world’s first true drone aircraft carrier.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 10 May 2021