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wend

[wend] / wɛnd /
VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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The park includes a collection of waterways that wend through marshes and islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2023

Currently, most designs for Arctic shipping routes have vessels sticking close to the edge of the ice as they wend their way through the sea.

From Scientific American May 1, 2023

“That’s why compression is a bad thing, because those air pores are where the roots wend their way through the soil to find water and fertilizer.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2023

Recently, however, I once again came across a figure from the McCarthy era who did indeed notice, but bear with me as I slowly wend my way toward him.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2023

With that, he turned about and began to wend his way through back streets and dark alleys, his lantern barely showing the way through the dark and rain.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

The exhibition, which wends through eight contiguous galleries, begins with a visual overture, seven pictures that preview what’s ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

As the case wends its way through the courts, the government has not yet made good on its threat to break up NCAR's various labs, which currently employ about 800 people.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

From the cynicism and compromises of middle age, the show wends its way back to the innocence and idealism of young adulthood.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2024

Later the saxophonist José Carlos Cruzata Revé wends his way through a cohort of dancers, as if it’s right where he belongs.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2024

Arthur was crying the same wends again and again, holding gruff Gawaine by the elbow and putting them into his ear.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The SUV drove me through an airport security gate and wended its way past rows of planes and runways before dropping me alongside the American Airlines 737 taking me to Phoenix.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Khamenei's funeral procession wended its way slowly through central Tehran, from Imam Hossein Square in the east to Azadi Square in the west, on the last of three days of public mourning in the capital.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Hours later, volunteers in an inflatable boat wended their way through the floodwaters in pitch-darkness as they attempted to reach people caught in flooded homes.

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2023

“This is the last time we’ll come here,” Condé told Piter as they wended their way up its serpentine alleys.

From Seattle Times Feb. 27, 2022

Standing on Copp’s Hill—the highest point in the North End neighborhood—one could look down on hectic streets where hundreds of people wended their way with pushcarts and horse-drawn wagons.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

She turned it down and went to work as an apprentice at a law firm instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

Bennett appeared far more confident than he did against the Chiefs, when the Rams went three-and-out on his first series against many defensive starters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Flowers and candles were left outside the Brinell school in Fagersta where Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson went on Saturday morning to honour the dead student and three wounded victims.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

The allegations in these indictments apparently are that they went beyond exaggerating the threats and actually supported these organizations to make them bigger threats so they could then monitor them or do whatever they did.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

“Yeah, I didn’t realize it was him. But thinking back, I’m sure now. He went that way,” I reply, pointing away from the old man’s house.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

A proposal to ban social media for children under 15 is currently wending its way through parliament in France.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Mr. Crytzer’s narrative hums along with the National Road’s traffic as he colorfully describes Pony Express riders, stagecoaches, Conestoga wagons and many thousands of migrants wending ever westward, feeding the nation’s economic and territorial growth.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Another, brought by eight deputies who alleged they were routinely harassed by the Banditos is wending its way toward trial after a judge decided last year the case could move forward.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2024

Of the thousands of interorgan messages wending through the body, a few stand out as the most promising for therapies.

From Science Magazine May 22, 2024

The track was as steep as it was narrow, wending its way ever upward.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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