How to Use fifth wheel in a Sentence

fifth wheel

noun
  • He felt more and more like a fifth wheel at the office.
  • Toy haulers come in class A, class C, travel and fifth wheel variants.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • The huge fifth wheel, designed and patented by its creator, was a thing of beauty.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 28 June 2019
  • Many also have a chrome grill, fifth wheel and pop trunk in the back with a flying goddess ornament on the front hood.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Outside, the fifth wheel boasts a grill, a second refrigerator, and ample storage.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Some of their favorite memories revolve around cross-country trips in their fifth wheel trailer visiting just about every state over the years.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Get factory-direct prices on top RV brands and see the latest floorplans on a fifth wheel with a large kitchen or a compact camper van.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Firefighters arrived within six minutes and found the fifth wheel camper in flames, which were spreading to the home, according to a news release from the fire district.
    — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • More than 100 exhibitors will be on hand with the latest in pop-up campers, truck campers, travel trailers, fifth wheels, motor homes and park models of all sizes.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Cameras help the driver line up a hitch or fifth wheel, and there's an optional accessory camera for the back of a trailer to give drivers a view behind them.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Your average fifth wheel is likely to include full-size kitchen, a full-size dining and entertainment area, a full-size bedroom or two, and a full-size bathroom.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 June 2024
  • Daniels, who’d hoped to find stability in a permanent home for himself and his two young adult daughters after his divorce and health struggles, is living in a fifth wheel camper.
    — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
  • The property also has dry tent camping and three partial-hookup RV sites suitable for everything from campervans to fifth wheels.
    — Michael D'estries, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2026
  • People at the scene attempted to use a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, which sparked on the fifth wheel of the trailer, according to CHP.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2019
  • Her Ashley is the movie’s fourth and fifth wheel, dismissed as both a perfidious troublemaker and a New Age airhead—a life coach in need of a wife coach.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Oldest brother Kevin Jonas also tagged along, sans wife Danielle Jonas, as something of a trifecta-completing fifth wheel.
    — Andrea Park, Glamour, 17 July 2018
  • The fifth-wheel landing legs may not be seated properly with enough space between the brackets which are welded to the chassis, allowing the fifth wheel to slip down the landing leg and can puncture the floor of the vehicle.
    — Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2020
  • Silverstar Lite fifth wheel and travel trailers equipped with a Winntec model 6020 two-stage propane regulator.
    — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2021
  • The fifth wheel-type camper fell as Burrow's wife backed up, and the 63-year-old Salisbury man was pinned between the camper and the pickup truck bed, according to investigators.
    — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2018
  • Three adults camping near Camp Verde in Yavapai County were rescued after several feet of water from a winter storm surrounded their truck and fifth wheel trailer.
    — Mike Cruz, azcentral, 3 Dec. 2019

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