How to Use wheel in a Sentence

wheel

1 of 2 noun
  • The car's rear wheels started to spin on the icy road.
  • What has four wheels and flies?
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • Snow, slush in your wheel well?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • At the first spin of its wheels.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Then, once again, the wheels came off.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But then the wheel’s fell off for a bit.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Four wheels moves the body, two wheels moves the soul.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Why two legs instead of wheels?
    — Natan Linder, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Give your inner child the wheel for a bit.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Garnish with a lime wedge or wheel.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2026
  • And maybe that starts the wheels turning.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Those chairs are in bad shape, with sticky wheels and faulty hand brakes.
    — Sophie Neiman, NPR, 20 June 2026
  • In fact, skis predate the wheel.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Garnish with a thin lime wheel.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 6 June 2026
  • The wheels are placed on long wooden shelves.
    — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
  • The wheels will only spin faster from there.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Serve over ice, and garnish with lemon wheels.
    — Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Pogačar almost fell when his front wheel slipped.
    — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The wheels sink into the soft mud and rip out the grass.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Cignetti is getting quite the set of wheels to pace the field.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • That would break it, and there’s only one of those wheels.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2025
  • That would break it, and there's only one of those wheels.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Beneath our wheels rocks shook and bounced the truck like a toy.
    — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Garnish with more mint leaves and lemon peel twists or wheels for flair.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • Garnish with a pinch of sea salt, a lime wheel, and a fresh jalapeño slice.
    — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Getting behind the wheel of a car is not the same.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Snow and ice build up in the wheels and cause the tires to go out of balance.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The rising water lapped at the wheels of the plane.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Power is transferred to the wheel via a belt drive.
    — New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2026

wheel

2 of 2 verb
  • Our waiter wheeled out a small dessert cart.
  • She wheeled around in her chair when I entered the room.
  • He wheeled his motorcycle into the garage.
  • Doctors wheeled the patient into the operating room.
  • Birds are perched on rocky crags, while others wheel around a tree.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Above, herring gulls wheel and nest in the cliff’s rugged crevices.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Her younger brothers wheel her to school every day.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Seven hours later she was wheeled out with a new chance to live.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Supply carts are wheeled down the hallway.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Necas wheeled around in the right circle to put the puck towards the net.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Kwan, who had just reached on a bunt single, wheeled toward third.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • To him, the happiest birds seem the crows that wheel above in the sky.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Theus tried several times to wheel the patient's bed out of the room.
    — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • In one clip from the preview, someone is wheeled out of a house in a bodybag.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Paramedics wheeled out at least three people who passed out from heat exhaustion.
    — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • Today, the sun still shines, birds wheel and soar in the sky and the wind still makes the grasses dance.
    — Cheryl Isaacs, PEOPLE, 23 Nov. 2025
  • There’s a little cart, which is wheeled around to deliver cones filled with caviar.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Walcott was, by then, in a wheelchair, and Doig wheeled him through the show.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Puffins wheel overhead, while fulmars and guillemots cling to cliff ledges like notes on a stave.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Or the deep blue of the open ocean, where tuna flash like silver and seabirds wheel overhead.
    — Jennifer Raynor, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Videos also show a male victim being wheeled out of the venue on a stretcher.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The lungs were deemed good, and my mom was wheeled into the operating room.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Gordon responds, wheeling the top half of his daughter off the stage.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The property has an on-call ice cream service that will wheel a cart right into your room.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Zacha came out of the corner with the puck and wheeled into the high slot before the puck was knocked off his stick.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Sherman swiveled around, turning his back to the camera, and wheeled himself away.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The motor was wheeled out on a furniture dolly.
    — Eric Hendrikx, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2026
  • After eating, some of the nuns are wheeled out into the sun, but there are not enough wheelchairs.
    — Sophie Neiman, NPR, 20 June 2026
  • When a windstorm hits, simply wheel the greenhouse into a garage or shed and wait for the storm to pass.
    — Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2023
  • The bull wheeled, tearing through the fescue and bounded uphill.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025

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