How to Use live wire in a Sentence
live wire
noun- She's a real live wire.
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My daughter has been a live wire since she was born.
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Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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Nellie’s voice was a live wire sparking through the air.
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Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
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Trees and branches were taken out, and live wires went down.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
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And upon her return, Dana is a live wire.
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Sam Reed,
Glamour,
6 Mar. 2026
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Place is a live wire 6 minutes before kickoff.
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Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
17 Jan. 2026
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The Olympia is now absorbing this collective energy like a live wire.
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Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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Lashly reportedly stood in the truck bed while attempting to cut the wire, which led to a pole breaking and live wires to striking him.
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Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
2 Apr. 2026
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One of the brothers used a carbon-fibre pole while attempting to get the bird down and touched the live wires on the power line, killing him instantly.
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Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
25 Apr. 2026
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The new science is causing not just a technological sensation, but also a cultural one, twanging a live wire in the popular mind.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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On the other hand, the Cracker Barrel debacle touched so many live wires of American politics that the story was simply irresistible.
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Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Critics after the screening agreed that when given a character perfectly tailored to his strengths (cocky sincerity, charismatic twerpiness), Timmy is a live wire.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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As the person drove to the site, UI received four phone calls from the city of New Haven Fire Dispatch reporting that a live wire was down, PURA wrote.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
9 Jan. 2026
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On Wednesday, April 1, Alberto Romero became trapped in the live wires of an electrical service drop after the pet, who had been missing for two days, was seen on the third-floor balcony, according to NBC 7 San Diego.
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Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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In the band’s heyday, Anthony Kiedis, with his bare torso and long girlish copper-blond hair, looked like a ’70s teen idol who’d become a Warhol hustler – a street-flesh god like Joe Dallesandro, except that where Dallesandro was in a daze, Kiedis was a live wire.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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