How to Use the wire in a Sentence

the wire

noun

• The race, which went down to the wire, was edged out by King.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2023
• The Angels tend to always have games that go to the wire.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
• The contest went down to the wire as the Browns worked to get a lead in the final 70 seconds of the game.
  — Irie Harris, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2023
• But the point is, a Biden-Trump race, or a Biden-anyone race, will be down to the wire.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
• The first game went to double overtime, the second came down to the wire.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2023
• Thread one end through the basket and twist the wire back on itself.
  — Joe Kohl-Riggs, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• Cut four or five then place them on the wire rack (see next item), wipe the knife, and cut a few more.
  — Jacalyn Carfagno, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• Tuck the wire and boot out of the way before proceeding.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• Down to the wire Lindskog can’t stay in his seat anymore.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Klimek: Entrants to the Vesuvius Challenge worked right down to the wire.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• The seats were so fragmented, the wire springs poked through the leather, and the steering wheel had decades of hand sweat soaked in.
  — Carolyn Fong, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• Sweaters, swim trunks and strands of T-shirts hang from the wires’ pointed barbs, signs of where migrants were snagged by the wire.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• For sheer nail-biting glory, nothing beats a game of hoops that comes down to the wire.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The electrons these electrodes give off, meanwhile, pass through the wire outside the cell.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• The researchers then pulled the fake fish along the wire, together and one at a time, and filmed the reaction of the damselfish.
  — Annie Roth, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Sunday's game should be another close matchup that comes down to the wire.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2023
• The design is basic, and after a month or two, the paper tubes begin to rip off the wire.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• Mother's Day is just a few short days away -- Sunday, May 12 -- and gift-buying time is down to the wire.
  — Kelsey Chapman, ABC News, 8 May 2024
• This is coming down to the wire, with the lead traded twice already in the final 90 seconds.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 22 Feb. 2023
• Scrub Everything After the grates and panels have soaked, take them out and scrub them with the wire brush.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• Beyond the wire fence is wilderness, high desert; wilderness inside the ranch, too.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• But the prospect for speedy Senate action looked shaky, which could drag the legislation past the wire.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• Then the wire comes out, and a catheter is fed through the sheath and guided up through the larger arteries into a blood vessel in the neck.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Migrants, including many children, have been trapped and slashed by the wire.
  — John C. Moritz, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Read full article There was the wire clothesline in the courtyard, draped with a blue blanket cut into the size of a postage stamp.
  — Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Both of the Scorpions’ county champions were in matches that went down to the wire.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2023
• When done, transfer each to the wire rack and return oil to 350 degrees between batches.
  — Yewande Komolafe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The migrants stood in the water and shouted through the wire, saying they had been robbed and attacked in Mexico.
  — Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Which is when Ortiz found the afterburner switch and Forte breezed by his opponents to take the wire.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Then, under a confident ride by Irad Ortiz, Jr., Forte started to get faster and passed the leader with about 30 yards left to the wire.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024