How to Use wheelhouse in a Sentence

wheelhouse

noun
  • The next deck is equipped with a wheelhouse and a scenic sky lounge.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • Singing is sort of the middle of my wheelhouse.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The bow and wheelhouse of a small boat jutted from the back wall.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In the dark, the captain paced back and forth across the wheelhouse.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • For them, the language about love and peace is bad, or just not in their wheelhouse.
    — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • What kind of music is too far outside your wheelhouse to sing?
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • This is not the time to take on something outside your wheelhouse.
    — oregonlive, 29 June 2020
  • But while opera may not be Bey’s wheelhouse, per se, she would not be lost at sea.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The scene gets laughs, and is squarely in Stiller’s wheelhouse.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Now that premise sounds more like something in Howard’s wheelhouse.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That would have been such a meta moment, right in John’s wheelhouse.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
  • As a former preschool teacher, this was right in my wheelhouse, too.
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Owen’s discomfort with the plot puts this sketch right in his wheelhouse.
    — Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But there was no system that would have triggered an alarm above deck in the wheelhouse.
    — Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In this wheelhouse, Emery found his calling.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Being in the in-between, then, is our wheelhouse.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, this is Cora’s wheelhouse.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Comedy may be more in her wheelhouse.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The white was a little more in my wheelhouse and perfect for the office.
    — Libby Page, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the wheelhouse, Casto flipped on the speaker to talk to the crew.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • All Styles had to do was dance and belt out a smidgeon of Bowie—right in his wheelhouse.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 16 Apr. 2017
  • Another went to the wheelhouse, and the third watched a movie in the galley.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The Giants get no respect, which is right in their wheelhouse.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This is 100 percent in my wheelhouse.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Both tracks feel to be very much in the Colombian heartthrob’s wheelhouse.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2022
  • That’s really not in my wheelhouse.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a third-party action game, which would seem to be in Willits’ wheelhouse.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The staging is her sixth for the Met, and at first glance, the work looked to be square in her wheelhouse.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Waugh, who lived in Austin for more than a decade, said the film hits right in his wheelhouse of action and heart.
    — Brayden Garcia january 28, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2026

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