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Winch
"Winch" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I've never used a winch before. Could you show me how?
I've never used a winch before.
Tom was so heavy in full armour that he had to be hoisted into his horse's saddle by a winch. No sooner had the ropes been withdrawn than the animal collapsed under his weight.
The five-and-a-half-meter-diameter balloon is tethered with a winch cable to an airport pickup truck.
His mechanical ingenuity has also been displayed in the construction of an orrery consisting of at least 1,000 wheels, which, by a single winch, turns all the planets in their respective periods, and also the whole of the satellites.
It runs on clattering steel tracks; the driver sits in a cab over the tracks, operating the controls that rotate the arm and turn the winch.
the mule[…]being likewise frighted by that terrible blow, ran away as fast as it could about the fields, and within two or three winches overthrew him to the ground
Winch in those sails, lad!
It is not the first time a cat-o'-nine-tails has been across my back for other men's misdeeds. Promise me a good flask of brandy when I'm done with it, and I warrant ye I'll never winch.
They “clicked” each other, kidded each other, and by and by they would “winch” and marry each other.
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It was common knowledge that he'd winched dozens of girls while she had been sharing a bedroom with her two brothers.
She turned and looked at me, amused, gave a wee chuckle, kissed me on the mouth hard and quick, and again, and we were kissing for real, lingering, soft and moist and warm, me and Jeannie winching, and I wanted it not to stop.
Up at the cinema Campbell Cameron had been all slithering hands, like a dirty octopus. Even his tenderest winching had felt entitled and demanding.
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