WHEEL in a Sentence

Learn WHEEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
245 example sentences for WHEEL, such as:
1. The wheel plays in a track.
2. This car is four wheel drived.
3. Put your shoulder to the wheel.
4. Hold the wheel in both hands, thus.
5. The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WHEEL
wheel
 v.  wheel somebody or something
 n.  a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a sort of bath-chair with a motor attachment, in which he could puff slowly round the park.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  'Thanks, then, for the help, Mellors,' said Clifford casually, as he began to wheel down the passage to the servants' quarters.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  The two sisters drove off in the morning, Connie looking rather like an Easter lamb, rather small beside Hilda, who held the wheel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  Quiet and complacent, Clifford sat at the wheel of adventure: in his old black hat and tweed jacket, motionless and cautious.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  The man crouched solicitously by the wheel, and peered at the little engine.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  And she had to go and take hold of the wheel, ready.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
7  The keeper put a stone under the wheel, and went to sit on the bank, his heart beat and his face white with the effort, semi-conscious.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  Let me wheel your chair round to the other side; and then you won't see it.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Upon this he sat down, leaning his back against the wheel.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  He made fast the pail to the long coil of rope, put it over the wheel, and allowed it to descend by letting the rope slip through his hands.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
11  More wise than those who go on until the wheel turns against them, he realized his gains and returned to England with them.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
12  The more deeply sunk impression is, of course, the hind wheel, upon which the weight rests.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
13  Holmes struck a match and held it to the back wheel, and I heard him chuckle as the light fell upon a patched Dunlop tire.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
14  Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
15  I walked into the doctor's yard this morning, and shot my syringe full of aniseed over the hind wheel.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  I got my bag caught in the wheel of my bicycle.
2  Curtis got behind the wheel and they started back toward the cottage.
3  The wheel plays in a track.
4  The left front wheel of the car spun off, and the car crashed into a tree.
5  You put grease on a wheel to make it turn more easily.
6  Put your shoulder to the wheel.
7  Hold the wheel in both hands, thus.
8  The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
9  A mill-race is the fast stream of water driving the wheel of a water-mill.
10  Even if the road is bumpy, the wheel must go forward; even if the river roaring waves, ships are sailing.
11  This car is four wheel drived.
12  The front wheel of the bicycle was out of shape.
13  The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of the world.
14  Who's who hit the traveler,who is in the wheel of life.
15  The wheel is designed with obstacles in the ball's path to randomise its movement.