Explore Wending through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Wending meaning
present participle and gerund of wend
Using Wending
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of wend
- In the example corpus, wending often appears in combinations such as: wending their, wending through.
Context around Wending
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wending
- In this selection, "wending" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, car and condition stand out and add context to how "wending" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a car wending through a and actions still wending their way. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wending" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wending
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
From the opening aerial shot of a car wending through a rural countryside, Chabrol’s superlative talents at crafting genre thrillers are on full display. (25 words)
A few stretches have been turned into roads, but elsewhere the routes remain as they’ve always been, wending through forests, across rivers and alongside planted fields. (27 words)
The wending and winding folk song features the story of an animal courtship and wedding party that, when snug with Dylan’s signature vocal rasp, is just sublime. (28 words)
This was because long-haul roads were unpaved, more often than not too narrow for carts, much less wagons, and in poor condition, wending their way through forests, marshy or muddy quagmires as often as unimproved but dry footing. (39 words)
Since then, Supervisor Kathryn Barger has been monitoring the grant requests and proposed emergency actions still wending their way through complex permitting processes required to launch and complete repair and restoration projects. (32 words)
The wending and winding folk song features the story of an animal courtship and wedding party that, when snug with Dylan’s signature vocal rasp, is just sublime. (28 words)
Example sentences (5)
Since then, Supervisor Kathryn Barger has been monitoring the grant requests and proposed emergency actions still wending their way through complex permitting processes required to launch and complete repair and restoration projects.
The wending and winding folk song features the story of an animal courtship and wedding party that, when snug with Dylan’s signature vocal rasp, is just sublime.
A few stretches have been turned into roads, but elsewhere the routes remain as they’ve always been, wending through forests, across rivers and alongside planted fields.
From the opening aerial shot of a car wending through a rural countryside, Chabrol’s superlative talents at crafting genre thrillers are on full display.
This was because long-haul roads were unpaved, more often than not too narrow for carts, much less wagons, and in poor condition, wending their way through forests, marshy or muddy quagmires as often as unimproved but dry footing.
Common combinations with wending
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: