As the war wound down and eventually sputtered out altogether, efforts turned from conflict to reconstruction.

The war was winding to a close.

The war wound down, life went on.

His is still a minority view, but there is growing evidence that this seemingly interminable war may be winding down at last.

But as the cold war wound down, he began to study Western economics on his own.

By 1918, the war had wound down and Montoya was able to finish middle school, when he expressed the desire to become a painter.

As the cold war wound down, though, the superpowers promoted a peace accord here, including free elections in 1992.

As the story begins, the war in Bosnia is winding to a close.

And more conventional wars were winding down each year than were breaking out, so it looked like we'd peaked there, too.

The war was already winding down, and assertions were made that the morale of the soldiers was bad.