"wind" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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wind + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 14
wind one's way • wind streets • wind roads • wind one's arms • wind down the window • ...
wind + preposición
Kolokacji: 38
wind up • wind down • wind through • wind around • wind into • ...
wind + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 21
tightly wound • eventually wind up • slowly wind • wind upward • wind away • ...
  • The film takes what energy it has from the fact that he is so tightly wound.
  • The longer this goes on, the more tightly wound he'll get.
  • This time of year, he said, his body clock gets more tightly wound.
  • Frank seemed less tightly wound, more willing to listen to reason.
  • The thing is, he's such a tightly wound, very intense guy.
  • The tightly wound eye of the storm never hit the mainland.
  • The effect is that of a tightly wound middle-aged woman trying to sound like a sweet little girl.
  • Also, as we were talking about, having a small number of devices allows the company to focus on keeping everything tightly wound.
  • Yet she is the one who gets tightly wound at work, she said.
  • What may be relaxing to some only turns others into tightly wound springs.

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