How to Use wire in a Sentence

wire

1 of 2 noun
  • There was a wire sticking out of the chair.
  • A telephone wire had fallen on the road during the storm.
  • The flowers were bound together with thin wire.
  • The undercover officer wore a wire to her meeting with the drug dealer.
  • A short black wire connects the computer's monitor to its keyboard.
  • In the art room, a teacher taught me to pull a wire through a mound of wet clay.
    Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • Use a wire brush to wipe away any rust from the hub, then install the new rotor.
    Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
  • What this meant: When Nigeria paused on the wet gas, a legal wire was tripped.
    Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Display on a mantel or attach a loop of wire to the top and hang as a fall wreath.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Set the pans on trivets or a wire rack and let cool completely.
    Florence O'Connor, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One wire rests near the sinoatrial node, and the second in one of the heart’s ventricles.
    Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack, about 1 hour.
    Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2023
  • This also speaks to the slim pickings available on this week’s wire.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Kellen Mond is probably fine, but the Browns might keep an eye on the waiver wire.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The video has since been revised, and the image replaced with an image of barbed wire.
    oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Make sure your bread is cooled completely on a wire rack.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2023
  • But for most of the year they are connected only by the telephone wires.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Just place the poultry or meat on top of this wire rack for tender, juicy results.
    Andie Kanaras, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely, about 1 hour.
    Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Transfer to a wire rack, and let stand 1 hour before serving.
    Marian Cooper Cairns, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The five sides of fun include curvy wire rides, peek-a-boo doors, spin-and-match animals, ABC tiles, and more.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Glue tiny bits of moss and lichen around the stems of mini white pumpkins, then secure to the wreath with floral pins and wire.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • All told, the bill will come to $428, plus a couple hundred more to have an electrician wire it.
    Tik Root, Grist, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Beating them again and again with clubs, whips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
  • As one way to stop the thefts, Metro is working to encase its copper wires in concrete.
    Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
  • Next, add the toiletry bag, wire bag, and miscellaneous bag on top of the clothing cube.
    Vicki Denig, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The wreath is made of durable iron wire and colorful foam leaves, berries, and miniature pumpkins.
    Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Bake the chicken on a wire rack so heat can circulate underneath and crisp the skin from the bottom.
    Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Along with the student acts, the Fern Street Circus will have a variety of circus performances, such as a tight wire, puppetry, juggling and more.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The same amount of e-waste–including circuit boards, wires as well as the metal, glass, and plastics that encase electronic components–ended up in landfills.
    Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
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wire

2 of 2 verb
  • The house will be wired next week.
  • When you get in to town, wire me.
  • The microphone is wired to the speaker.
  • My room is wired for cable.
  • You can wire the generator to a car battery.
  • Her jaw was wired shut after the accident.
  • She wired the money home to Canada.
  • Can you wire me $300?
  • The pedestal is wired to electrodes that rest on the surface of the brain.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Ben bent the glass and wired up the transformer’s circuit board.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • My dad had been asked to wire bail money and not tell me.
    Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 17 May 2021
  • And the way that my brain is wired at this point is also not my fault.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • At the moment, Mark has to be wired to the computer to use the device.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • If the goal was to wire only 98 percent, the price tag would fall to $40 billion.
    New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • Transfer the baking sheets to wire racks and let the cookies cool on them for 1 minute.
    Anne Byrn, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The task was to install them in a door frame and wire them, but not throw the switch until the instructor was present.
    Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In other words, whomever can wire the money the fastest gets to book the villa.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The freaks and me may as well have been wired in a direct feed from the Marshalls, so pure and raw is the group’s transfer of madness.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • When you're finished, wire the umbrella to a hook on your door.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Wrap a small length of florists wire around the middle of each X; twist ends together in back to secure.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
  • To securely attach the wreath forms together, thread green florists wire through the branches of the round wreath and around the sides of the heart form.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2022
  • But after the victims wire that money, their banks alert them that the check from the scammers was bogus.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
  • In extreme cases, if there is enough to work with, embalmers may try to drill holes in the facial bones and wire the skull shut.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 14 June 2022
  • Maybe the human brain is wired to think in terms of binaries: male or female, on or off, win or lose.
    Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Then, using a spatula, transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool.
    Anne Byrn, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Few staunch Democrats are both better wired and more willing to cut checks than Jacobs.
    Ross Barkan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • To ensure that control, the researchers had to wire into the roach’s nervous system.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Sep. 2022
  • On that train, there were 12 migrants that were locked in a shipping container wired shut from the outside.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Much of the time that Lefty spent in Milwaukee was in Cobb's undercover car, which had a tape recorder in it, which was wired.
    Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But in the end, only a fraction of it was wired, two sources say, much of it from Intel, which Forbes has learned invested $20 million, a fraction of what was reported.
    Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

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