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How To Use windup In A Sentence

• Just because he's diminutive doesn't mean he can't pitch, and he's proven that while his windup is a bit funky, his mechanics are so good that it isn't a risk at this point (and the two Cy Youngs in a row should have put that to rest). Yahoo! Sports - Top News
• The 28-year-old Burnett, whose across-the-body delivery has concerned scouts for years, tinkered with a new windup this spring before going back to his old motion.
• On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
• Every trivial action must be thoroughly motivated, and the finish of the playlet, instead of occurring upon the 'catabasis,' or general windup of the action, must develop the most striking feature of the playlet, so that the curtain may come down on a surprise, or at least an event toward which the entire action has been progressing. Writing for Vaudeville
• People with joie de vivre are like windup dolls that never run down.
• Rule 8.01 says that once a pitcher starts his windup he must continue ‘without interruption or alteration.’
• Break the windup into segments - such as stepback, leg kick, release and follow-through - that allow pitchers to isolate each of the steps.
• A windup alarm clock, for example, uses a tension spring as a drive mechanism, an escapement wheel, and the gear driven mechanical hands moving across the clock face as a display of the time.
• Known as a streaky player throughout his career, Hidalgo is mechanically sound but starts his swing too late in the pitcher's windup and was unable to successfully adapt to a new batting approach this season.
• In the windup of your book, you have a segment called ‘Seven Lessons of Leadership for the President’ based on your experience of working for four presidents.