winding
noun
the act of a person or thing that winds.
windingly
-
a word derived from
winding.
Example Sentences
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Diamond stepped on shore, and without looking behind him began to follow a natural path which led windingly towards the top of the precipice.
From At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
The path was cut windingly through the lofty, dark, and closely serried trees, which vibrated like chords under the soft bow of the wind.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Before long, they came to an old broken gate, half open; it was the entrance to a narrow cartway, now unused, which descended windingly between high thick hedges.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
From the little cove where his boat-house stood a road swept windingly to his house through a garden of luxuriant verdure.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
Then the pale light of the little lamp glided windingly over the rounded outlines of flint fossils.
From Peasant Tales of Russia by V.I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko
