How to Use wheelhouse in a Sentence

wheelhouse

noun
  • In the dark, the captain paced back and forth across the wheelhouse.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The style and shade are both in the classic wheelhouse.
    Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The next deck is equipped with a wheelhouse and a scenic sky lounge.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • Charlie May wait with him in the warmth of the wheelhouse.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The bow and wheelhouse of a small boat jutted from the back wall.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In the wheelhouse, Casto flipped on the speaker to talk to the crew.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The staging is her sixth for the Met, and at first glance, the work looked to be square in her wheelhouse.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Another went to the wheelhouse, and the third watched a movie in the galley.
    Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Better yet, head to the wheelhouse to tell the captain.
    Ginger Dingus, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The scene gets laughs, and is squarely in Stiller’s wheelhouse.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • All Styles had to do was dance and belt out a smidgeon of Bowie—right in his wheelhouse.
    Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 16 Apr. 2017
  • It’s the least showy role, which is not in my wheelhouse to begin with.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
  • For them, the language about love and peace is bad, or just not in their wheelhouse.
    Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • For them, the language about love and peace is bad, or just not in their wheelhouse. . . .
    Stephanie McCrummen, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
  • On the Naknek River at the protest, crews share coffee in the wheelhouses.
    Jack Darrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Legend told Witrado the song choice was right in the 19-year-old’s wheelhouse.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The final test is the 40-yard dash, which places Symmonds back in his wheelhouse.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2022
  • But while opera may not be Bey’s wheelhouse, per se, she would not be lost at sea.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The design duo decided to place the wheelhouse at the tip of the bow in between the upper and main deck.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2022
  • This is not the time to take on something outside your wheelhouse.
    oregonlive, 29 June 2020
  • The first crew member awoke in the wheelhouse to a noise and got up to investigate, the NTSB said.
    Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Both tracks feel to be very much in the Colombian heartthrob’s wheelhouse.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Stracke hung a tree stand in the buck’s wheelhouse, then grunted and rattled the giant in for a 5-yard shot.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Beating the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round was in their wheelhouse.
    Vincent Z. Mercogliano, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • Now that premise sounds more like something in Howard’s wheelhouse.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Smith-Pelly didn’t give up on his own dump, and Beagle found him with a pass right in the wheelhouse.
    Tyler Horka, SI.com, 2 June 2018
  • But there was no system that would have triggered an alarm above deck in the wheelhouse.
    Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Owen’s discomfort with the plot puts this sketch right in his wheelhouse.
    Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The Suns have a style that works and a leader in Chris Paul who is in his wheelhouse as far as leading this team.
    USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • While there’s no denying that Howard has made the ultimate movie that’s not in his wheelhouse, what’s most different about it isn’t the eccentric subject matter.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024

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