1.   A wonderful career indeed is winding down, and Nicklaus is realistic enough to know his days are numbered.

2.   He never forgot the abuse heaped on that other Husky quarterback in the family, older brother Damon, when his college career wound down.

3.   His UMass career is winding down and his team needs whatever he can summon because these are the games that really count.

4.   His career wound down after two more seasons in Utah, another in a pro league in Israel and a couple of comeback attempts with Charlotte and the Suns.

5.   Ms. von Stade will most likely allow her career to wind down in a long, characteristically graceful diminuendo.

6.   My career is winding down.

7.   Strong had seen his dancing career winding down and decided to get into winemaking, a calling his ancestors once pursued in Germany.

8.   The answers were I knew my career was winding down.

9.   The Midas touch eluded most of his handlers, and even as his career wound down things went amiss.

10.   Their careers wound through Jackson, Miss., and Tucson, Ariz.