WHEELS in a Sentence

Learn WHEELS 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 WHEELS, such as:

1. This car is four wheel drived.
2. Put your shoulder to the wheel.
3. Hold the wheel in both hands, thus.
4. The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
5. The front wheel of the bicycle was out of shape.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHEELS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wheel
 n.  any machine shaped having a circular frame
 v.  move, roll
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She rose suddenly from her chair at the sound of creaking wheels in the driveway and then sank down again as they went on around the house to the back yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Then, wheels ground sharply on the graveled driveway, and the soft murmur of Ellen's voice dismissing the coachman floated into the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett's throat and she wailed out loud--not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The noise came closer, the sound of wheels, the plod of a horse's hooves and voices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  And let me out of this carriage before I jump over the wheels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Uncertainly, Mose looked from the sergeant to Scarlett and she, splashing through the mud, close to the passing wheels, caught at Moses' stirrup strap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  It's almost too small to hold all of you and the wheels are ready to come off with no encouragement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The wheels leaned inward as if their first revolution would make them come off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  The shrubs and grass of the lawn were cut to pieces where hooves and wheels and feet had torn frantically back and forth until the soil was churned up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  She laid the whip on the tired horse's back and tried to urge him on while the waggling wheels rocked them drunkenly from side to side.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Deep ruts and furrows were cut into the road where horses had dragged heavy guns along it and the red gullies on either side were deeply gashed by the wheels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  The soft earth was scarred with hoof prints and heavy wheels and the vegetables were mashed into the soil.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  It went off at a jump and she felt the wheels pass over something soft, something resistant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  Yes, you came swiftly, dragging me at your chariot wheels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  The left front wheel of the car spun off, and the car crashed into a tree.
17  You put grease on a wheel to make it turn more easily.
18  Put your shoulder to the wheel.
19  Hold the wheel in both hands, thus.
20  The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
21  A mill-race is the fast stream of water driving the wheel of a water-mill.
22  Even if the road is bumpy, the wheel must go forward; even if the river roaring waves, ships are sailing.
23  This car is four wheel drived.
24  The front wheel of the bicycle was out of shape.
25  The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of the world.
26  Who's who hit the traveler,who is in the wheel of life.
27  The wheel is designed with obstacles in the ball's path to randomise its movement.
28  The driver had probably blacked out at the wheel.
29  I saw the car drive past, but didn't recognize the woman behind the wheel.
30  You need to jack up the car before you try to remove the wheel.