How to Use live wire in a Sentence

live wire

noun

• She's a real live wire.
• Cables knocked to the street from the crash were not live wires.
  — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• The officer arrived to find the pole on the ground with live wires on the street.
  — cleveland, 13 Mar. 2020
• Chick is the live wire: the needy and oblivious one, the drama queen.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• Mark Part of Tommy and Sincere’s crew, and a live wire.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Nov. 2023
• They were trapped for about an hour while a live wire lay on top of and behind her house.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Now pull the switch forward and out of the box, and use the detector to search for other live wires.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018
• In Warren, the young boy wanted to swing from a live wire hanging around four feet off the ground.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2022
• Why hire such a live wire performer to play someone so grim?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• We Energies was called to repair live wires on the ground.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
• But banning shifts is a live wire with good arguments for and against it.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• Remain in the water, and a live wire will electrocute you.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2021
• Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2021
• Clark is a live wire, making baskets from the logo and zipping passes all over the court.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• The outages were aimed at keeping power off live wires on a warm and windy day, ideal for the spread of wildfires.
  — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2019
• The Adonis is David Sparsholt, a young rower up at Oxford whose lovely body proves a live wire.
  — Anthony Domestico, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• Power is cut to thousands of people, to avoid live wires going down in the Santa Ana winds.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• The fire department arrived and saw the live wire was partially in the roadway and across a sidewalk.
  — cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021
• The electro-magnetic field around a live wire will cause this tool to beep and light up, showing the presence of AC voltage.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2016
• When the crew tried to reset the battery system, one of the crew members sustained an electric shock from touching a live wire.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2018
• Officials asked people to stay out of the area for just under two hours because there were active, live wires down on the street.
  — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• The striker has been brilliant in pre-season, performing with great pace and vigour - a real live wire.
  — SI.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• Power lines lay across the truck and the road, causing a hazard for fire crews who had to wait for SDG&E crews to de-activate the live wires, an official said.
  — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2019
• Even after fourteen years, the performance feels like touching a live wire.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Yank out the cable and the live wires will disconnect before the earth, further reducing the chance of anyone being fried.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Studs can be helpful for hanging a heavy mirror, but be sure to avoid drilling through pipes or inserting a screw into live wires.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2023
• While Kruse's style was more wry and understated, Krone proved to be a live wire auctioneer.
  — Pamela Chelin, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2019
• That disconnected the live wire and saved Varcadipane’s life.
  — Connie McKinney, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• It was flanked by a poster of Bob Marley and a photograph of my father, both onstage, both throwing their dreadlocks like live wires into the air.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• As the events of this most recent meeting of the DNC showed, questions of race and identity are still very much a live wire in intra-party disagreement.
  — Seth Masket, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024