Get to know Winched better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Winched meaning
simple past and past participle of winch
Using Winched
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of winch
- In the example corpus, winched often appears in combinations such as: were winched, winched to, winched into.
Context around Winched
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Winched
- In this selection, "winched" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, helicopter, pies, either, down, high and onto stand out and add context to how "winched" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a helicopter winched mr farrell and aaron was winched down into. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "winched" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with winched
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aaron was winched down into the raging waters. (8 words)
A helicopter winched Mr Farrell onto the quarry floor where resuscitation efforts continued in vain, the coroner said. (18 words)
The breaking down of the vessel will begin when high tide enables it to winched to the shore. (18 words)
The car is either winched up to the station on the top of the incline where the cable is collected on a winch drum, or the single car is balanced by a counterweight and operated the same way as a funicular with two cars. (44 words)
Danny’s team organised the catering for the event with sandwiches and meat pies winched high in on a crane, and Lipman Chief Operating Officer Paul Edwards made a special trip to Coffs Harbour from Sydney. (36 words)
A manual capstan was installed on the west bank of the river (its remains can still be seen) and rockets were fired to carry a line to ships so that they could be winched to safety. (36 words)
Example sentences (19)
Aaron was winched down into the raging waters.
A helicopter winched Mr Farrell onto the quarry floor where resuscitation efforts continued in vain, the coroner said.
Danny’s team organised the catering for the event with sandwiches and meat pies winched high in on a crane, and Lipman Chief Operating Officer Paul Edwards made a special trip to Coffs Harbour from Sydney.
The Coastguard Helicopter from Humberside Airport arrived at the scene and winched the casualty onboard before flying her to a landing site at Tynemouth Priory.
The emergency light turned out to be from a hiker, who was then winched into a Coast Guard helicopter, the statement added.
This is the moment a mother and her one-year-old baby were winched to safety on a helicopter as flooding threatened their isolated home near Valencia.
A resident of the property, who did not want to be named, said it happened at 8.15am when the tree was being winched onto the vehicle.
The breaking down of the vessel will begin when high tide enables it to winched to the shore.
The firefighters were winched into the building and have rigged up an irrigation system to douse the thick wood-like heads of the deniers.
A woman swimming in a natural pool in Noosa National Park was dumped on rocks by a freak wave on Monday and had to be winched to safety by a rescue helicopter.
That is how two northern suburbs men felt after they were winched to safety in a dramatic ocean rescue off the WA coast this week.
The casualty was winched onboard the helicopter and flown to Shannon Airport as weather conditions at the helipad at University Hospital were not suitable for safe operations.
They were uninjured and were winched to safety by helicopter this afternoon, after State Emergency Services and marine rescue headed to the trio.
The pair were winched into a coastguard helicopter at first light on Saturday before being taken to hospital by ambulance.
A ceiling plate above the two racks can be unbolted and opened to allow the racks to be winched out of the vehicle.
A manual capstan was installed on the west bank of the river (its remains can still be seen) and rockets were fired to carry a line to ships so that they could be winched to safety.
The bows of these machines already featured a winched pull back system and could apparently throw two missiles at once.
The car is either winched up to the station on the top of the incline where the cable is collected on a winch drum, or the single car is balanced by a counterweight and operated the same way as a funicular with two cars.
The funicular closed in 1969 and was reinstalled in 1996 using separate cables for each car, which were winched on separate winch drums in the station at the top.
Common combinations with winched
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- were winched 6×
- winched to 6×
- winched into 3×
- be winched 3×
- was winched 2×