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Examples of second wind in a Sentence
The sight of the finish line gave the runners a second wind.
He suddenly got his second wind and was able to complete the project on time.
Recent Examples on the Web
But the Pennsylvania native is just getting her second wind.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Feb. 2024
That might help give a second wind to digital payments stocks whose shares have struggled at times in the postpandemic era.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2023
Later in the play, after Babbitt catches an adulterous second wind, Broderick turns the character’s attempt to sit on some pillows on the floor into a moment of giddy physical comedy that had the La Jolla Playhouse audience seizing up in hilarity and no doubt a little sympathetic discomfort.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
The group found it second wind after linking up with producer Stephen Hague, who produced Please, and re-re-recorded it.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
Getting grounded in your physical body could actually give you a second wind of energy.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
But in Russia, price rises have gained a second wind, bedeviled authorities and brought the consequences of Moscow’s war in Ukraine closer to home.
—Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
Three years later, the boom of Black business seems to be catching a second wind, raising major capital.
—Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2023
By those criteria alone, Saturday might have told us that summer was still well entrenched and even showing a second wind.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1824, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near second wind
Cite this Entry
“Second wind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second%20wind. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
second wind
noun
: new energy or ability to continue
Medical Definition
second wind
noun
: recovered full power of respiration after the first exhaustion during exertion due to improved heart action
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