Winding in a sentence as a noun

Which is to say, the entire city is a single, long, winding road.

" If not, you may consider winding down the business.

I was fortunate in winding up at Caltech, which had a policy of open book / open note exams.

Winding in a sentence as an adjective

An employer would probably prefer that their public image be a planned and staged PR event rather than footage of the christmas party winding down.

Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.

Winding definitions

noun

the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"

See also: wind twist

adjective

marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"

See also: tortuous twisting twisty voluminous

adjective

of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

See also: rambling