How to Use spoke in a Sentence

spoke

noun
  • The stick got caught in the wheel's spokes.
  • Use a brush to get into the grooves and wheel spokes.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • Getting there may require some more spokes.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The poles are coils shaped like tubes, which point outward from the hub of the rotor like so many spokes on a wheel.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • Kids will absolutely will not be putting these things into his bike spokes.
    — Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • For each web, arrange 8 pretzel sticks like the spokes of a wheel with ends touching in center.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The bikes roll on 17-inch polished rims with stainless-steel spokes, and buyers can choose their preferred tires.
    — New Atlas, 29 May 2026
  • These units affix lights to wheel spokes, which rotate rapidly enough to give the impression that the entire wheel is alight.
    — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Some slightly obsessive drivers will go so far to take their snow brush and clean in between the spokes of the wheels to knock the snow and ice off.
    — Michael V. Pettigano, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Hertzberg and Seres spokes at a news conference announcing Burkhalter's plea.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Extending from a central rock cairn, there are 28 spokes, which seem to represent the number of days in a lunar month.
    — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Wheels are shown with spokes, with a 21-17-inch configuration likely.
    — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The most vulnerable in our community require a spoke of support services.
    — Michael Farver, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • Gone are the days when kids would affix baseball cards onto bicycle spokes and ride around with a motorcycle-like sound emanating from the wheels.
    — Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Shaped like a wheel, with concentric circles around silk spokes, the webs are sometimes adorned with decorations – called stabilimenta.
    — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
  • And the wheels might resemble wire spokes but on closer examination, are actually forged aluminum pieces.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Arrests for people allegedly driving 100 miles an hour or more have spokes in recent months, also sparking a push for better driver safety.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Pushing a spoke for years on end transforms Conan (played by a young Arnold Schwarzenegger) into a hulking physical specimen.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Penwortham substation is a major transmission hub, whose spokes desperately need congestion relief.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2025
  • It has been suggested that from the capitol grounds should radiate a number of fine highways, like the spokes of a wheel, over which Floridians could drive, easily and quickly, to all parts of the state.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2026
  • Yet the elegant minimalism of the three spokes—made completely from recycled aluminum—remains the overarching aesthetic cue.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The 15-inchers specifically are the newer RPF1 RS design, which has a flatter face with less convex spokes.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Other add-ons that can be seen on bikes in the museum’s collection include acetylene gas headlamps, map cases, tool-carrying attachments and, for ladies’ bicycles, a skirt guard so the fabric would not become tangled in the wheel spokes.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Protein role in sperm development Inside every flagellum is an incredibly complex structure, including tiny components called radial spokes.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The video then shows scenes of adult Glinda — played by Ariana Grande — embracing her new role as Glinda the Good, serving as a spokes-witch of sorts for The Wizard of Oz and his agenda.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
  • For example, in vibrations generated at angles that were perpendicular to the web surface or perpendicular to the threads coming out from the web’s center (like the spokes on a wheel), the stabilimenta did not create noticeable changes on how the vibrations moved.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the lagging cutoff low to our west will establish an extended plume of moisture from the eastern Pacific into Texas, with the subtropical jet providing opportunities for spokes of energy to rotate around the cutoff low and track over the state.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
  • By depicting the specific shade of green in the Café Vida awning to the correct number of spokes in the rose window at the Community United Methodist Church, Dal Bello hoped to bring the places that colored his childhood alive.
    — Sam Mulick, Daily News, 29 May 2026
  • Then draw spokes connecting to various categories, such as names of other family members; investment accounts; real estate and other assets, insurance policies, estate plans, key goals and values, and contact information for accountants, estate planners, and other professionals.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026

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