SLED in a Sentence

Learn SLED 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.

For SLED, below is one of 14 sentences:
He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sled
 n.  a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs for transportation over snow
Classic Sentence:
1  Then he caught Mattie's hand and drew her after him toward the sled.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Ethan dragged the sled with one hand and passed the other through Mattie's arm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  I guess this sled must be Ned Hale's.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  He drew the sled up to the Varnum gate and rested it against the fence.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  He took his seat on the sled and Mattie instantly placed herself in front of him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  She waited while he seated himself with crossed legs in the front of the sled; then she crouched quickly down at his back and clasped her arms about him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Once or twice the sled swerved a little under them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  The sled swerved in response, but he righted it again, kept it straight, and drove down on the black projecting mass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Then the sled came out on the surface of Lake Minniemashie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Then she threw off the robe, climbed out of the sled, raced after it with Harry Haydock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  As they drew near the end of the village the cries of children reached them, and they saw a knot of boys, with sleds behind them, scattering across the open space before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  For a Vogue cover girl, this pricey ensemble is pretty much par for the course; most people, however, wouldn't choose to go sledding in full-on evening wear.