wound up

variants also winded up
past tense of wind up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wound up One group left, signed a treaty and wound up in Oklahoma,. J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025 Which wound up not being the case? Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025 But during their kiss, police swooped in to clear the crowd and wound up separating McSweeney from her kissing partner. Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025 Those buyers wound up with a new car payment of $907, on average, compared to an industry average of $767 in the third quarter, Edmunds reports. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025 Oftentimes, Tupac and Gault wound up whiling away lunch (and beyond) at the Old Town Mall, a run-down shopping center two hops and a skip from Dunbar. Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025 Weeks later, the check wound up back at Clodfelter’s County Hall office, unsigned and uncashed. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025 The animals that wound up in the shelter, some strays and a few surrendered by owners who couldn’t care for them, were unlikely to get adopted; anyone in Pecos who wanted a dog probably already had three. Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025 That brush-off on top of Chris somehow edging her out of the Olympic team so that Tunde wound up as an alternate was too much not to go nuclear. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wound up
Verb
  • Leeds finished fourth in 1991, added to their squad and went on to win the title a year later.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Alker finished 12th in Little Rock but parlayed a tie for second place two weeks later at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship into his second Schwab Cup title in three years.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His tenure ended after consecutive losses to his former Notre Dame defensive coordinators Clark Lea (now the Vanderbilt head coach) and Mike Elko (Texas A&M), putting him at 34-14 in Baton Rouge.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2025
  • However, Megan felt no spark in person with Mike, so that ended quickly.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Research is ongoing and is being headed by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and directed by Manuel Pérez Rivas, a press release concluded.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The delicate investigation at the site of the plant has concluded, but determining a cause could take months more, said Brice McCracken, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ special agent in charge at the National Center for Explosives Training and Research.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Plus, its textured arch pattern looks great draped over the couch or the foot of the bed when you’re not wrapped up in it.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • After the red carpet wrapped up, the pop star switched her look, trading the pink outfit for a rich maroon ensemble.
    Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to the official Prime Video synopsis, season 2 picks up right where the season 1 finale left off.
    Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Ware also noted that the CSIS study left off incidents that others might call acts of left-wing terrorism.
    NPR, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Wound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wound%20up. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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