How do you use Wends in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Wends meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of wend
Using Wends
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of wend
- In the example corpus, wends often appears in combinations such as: wends its, the wends.
Context around Wends
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wends
- In this selection, "wends" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, billy, source, eventually and delayed stand out and add context to how "wends" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the wends delayed germanisation and as it wends its way. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wends" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wends
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The existence of these supposed Finnic Wends is far from clear. (11 words)
The uprising was successful and the Wends delayed Germanisation for about two centuries. (13 words)
The Danes often raided the Baltic shores (and, in turn, the Wends often raided the raiders). (16 words)
I have to say you never hear of too many Premiership footballers giving the Cresta a whirl but racing still has people both brave enough and idiotic enough to have a crack at the world famous ice track that wends its way down the mountain. (45 words)
In this aerial view, taken during HVO’s overflight this morning, you can follow the lava channel from fissure 8 (gas plume visible in far distance) as it wends its way toward Kapoho Crater (lower left), where it then heads south toward the ocean. (44 words)
In the 13th century there was indeed a people called Wends or Vends living as far as northern Latvia around the city of Wenden and it is not known if they were indeed Slavs as their name suggests. (38 words)
Example sentences (14)
And as Puffing Billy wends its way through forest from Belgrave to Gembrook, he sees fauna such as rosellas, echidnas and deer.
South Dakota may be more known for its croplands and “oceans of grass,” as the grasslands are known, but a vital water source wends through the land as well: streams.
I have to say you never hear of too many Premiership footballers giving the Cresta a whirl but racing still has people both brave enough and idiotic enough to have a crack at the world famous ice track that wends its way down the mountain.
Traces of the valley peter out as you head deeper into the park, but the river eventually wends its way beneath Buckingham Palace.
In this aerial view, taken during HVO’s overflight this morning, you can follow the lava channel from fissure 8 (gas plume visible in far distance) as it wends its way toward Kapoho Crater (lower left), where it then heads south toward the ocean.
In the 13th century there was indeed a people called Wends or Vends living as far as northern Latvia around the city of Wenden and it is not known if they were indeed Slavs as their name suggests.
It seems there were Danes in opposition to him, and an attack he carried out on the Wends of Pomerania may have had something to do with this.
Only some rural communities which did not have a strong admixture with Germans and continued to use West Slavic languages were still termed Wends.
The Danes often raided the Baltic shores (and, in turn, the Wends often raided the raiders).
The existence of these supposed Finnic Wends is far from clear.
Their German neighbours adapted the term they had been using for peoples east of the River Elbe before to the Slavs, calling them Wends as they called the Venedi before and probably the Vandals also.
The uprising was successful and the Wends delayed Germanisation for about two centuries.
Today, only one group of Wends still exists: the Lusatian Sorbs in present-day eastern Germany.
While the Wends were arriving in so-called Germania Slavica as large homogeneous groups, they soon divided into a variety of small tribes, with large strips of woodland separating one tribal settlement area from another.
Common combinations with wends
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: