How to Use wend in a Sentence

wend

verb
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  • We wended our way through the narrow streets.
  • We wended through the narrow streets.
  • The case took two years to wend its way through the courts.
    — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The same problem wends through all the courtroom scenes.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Now paths wend their way down the hill through the woodland stroll garden.
    — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • More than six miles of trails wend their way through grassy fields and rolling woodlands.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The three-mile loop will pass through the Chihuahuan Desert and wend around the base of volcanic Lone Mountain.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Some of the small wending dark tracks are also faults, or deep cracks in the surface.
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
  • One wild card is the tax bill wending its way through Congress.
    — Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • And some of those earnings may wend their way back to the original bank in the form of more deposits.
    — Victor Luckerson, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Oceanographers who know the currents of the Gulf fear that the slick will wend around the tip of Florida.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
  • The legislative session ends Sept. 13 but Ting said there’s enough time for the bill to wend its way through.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The case will now wend through the WTO’s legal procedures, which could take years.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • As the case wends its way further through the courts, the agency will continue its work.
    — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2016
  • The walls are thrumming with it, mainly through the way the mosaiclike collages wend between the works.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Some changed trains to take the Rocky Mountaineer, the luxury train that wends its way north through the Rockies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • This is wending through the courts and everything else.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But consider a curvy path like I-95, which wends and winds its way along the Eastern seaboard.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
  • That includes access to Benson Bridge and the trail that wends to the top of Multnomah Falls.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • And don’t wait for a paper refund check to wend its way through the U.S. Postal Service, either.
    — cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Nicole Zhao, 38, was one of many who had to wend, dodge and hopscotch their way through barriers that had been set up on the roads.
    — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Nicole Zhao, 38, was one of many who had to wend, dodge, and hopscotch their way through barriers that had been set up on the roads.
    — Austin Ramzy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The group wends towards a team parking lot and piles into a Lincoln sedan.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • While the suit wends its way through the federal court system, two others are waiting in the wings.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The rover will wend its way over two bright blue strips, which cover a series of small hurdles for the rover to hobble over.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Kim now hopes to get back on the road by August, wending his way to South America.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 6 July 2017
  • Drivers entering the parking lot will wend all the way to the north end of the lot, then the south end, the north end and back toward the south end before the tour starts.
    — James Patrick, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Hikers revel in the many trails that wend their way across rocky beaches, golden prairies and lush forests.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The walk would have taken her up and down hills, through a tunnel, along the shoulder of a highway wending through the mountains.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2016
  • The salmon wend past the rocks, expending precious power.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021

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