How to Use flywheel in a Sentence

flywheel

noun
  • The flywheel isn’t up to full speed yet.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
  • That’s what makes this flywheel go around.
    — James Manso, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • This involves two flywheels that must work in sync.
    — Ben Blanquera, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • What emerges from this model is a flywheel.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The flywheel, not the demo, is the moat.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Once parts of the flywheel stop turning, the whole thing seizes up.
    — NBC News, 15 May 2020
  • That’s the power of a flywheel.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
  • The bike has a 49-pound chrome flywheel and it’s made from a steel frame.
    — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Your pedal strokes spin a flywheel at the front of the machine.
    — Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Lewis from Photodom explains how the flywheel works at his store.
    — Square Contributor, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Once the deal went to market the flywheel spun quickly.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The damper or lever on the side of the flywheel adjusts the drag, or how much air flows through.
    — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Or rather, the crypto flywheel might just now be gaining speed.
    — Lihan (hyun Woo) Lee, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • This here’s the flywheel that keeps the rpms running real smooth.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2012
  • The other part of the thesis was that there would be a flywheel that would evolve.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Not a series of one-off bets, but a flywheel that compounds over time.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
  • And of course, that turns the flywheel faster, and our odds for success increase.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In other words, the parks make the flywheel complete.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In a rising market the flywheel spins.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • By and large, the flywheel effect is considered to be a good thing.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That can have a flywheel effect in convincing top stars to take on new projects.
    — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
  • But at times of low-energy demand, that flywheel can be sped back up again.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
  • In turn, the flywheel helps to keep a steady pace beneath even erratic work.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020
  • But there doesn’t need to be for this speculative flywheel to spin.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The flywheel is small, not unlike an extra large shoebox.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The flywheel of hope and angst that had driven the writing lost its momentum.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Customers can find the name and model on a label near the flywheel and inside the front fork.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The stationary bike is made from a steel frame and equipped with a 36-pound flywheel in the front.
    — Ambar Pardilla, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Pushing it to two-thirds fires up the flywheels and starts the minigun rotation.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
  • This is what makes the creator flywheel powerful.
    — Anastasia Shtompel, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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