Example Sentences

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Mr. Crytzer’s narrative hums along with the National Road’s traffic as he colorfully describes Pony Express riders, stagecoaches, Conestoga wagons and many thousands of migrants wending ever westward, feeding the nation’s economic and territorial growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Another, brought by eight deputies who alleged they were routinely harassed by the Banditos is wending its way toward trial after a judge decided last year the case could move forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

Of the thousands of interorgan messages wending through the body, a few stand out as the most promising for therapies.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

He did not dismiss the case entirely, and other lawsuits are wending their way through the courts.

From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2023

Heaving dirt from a pit, I would hear on another man’s breath some song half-sung in time to his swing; the engineers called their instructions, wending their way through our deep, loamy fosses.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson