How to Use wired in a Sentence

wired

adjective
  • No more caffeine for me, I'm pretty wired.
  • In fact, our brains are hard-wired to stick to the tried-and-true.
    Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
  • But the truth is, the urge to keep going is hard-wired in him.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Your mask may have a wired side, meant to adhere to the shape of your nose.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 7 July 2020
  • One hand is on the keyboard, the other on a wired mouse.
    Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 13 June 2024
  • The Dodge must have been hot-wired because the owner still had the keys.
    John Benson, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
  • This place, as 2008 proved, is hard-wired for the kind of drama that screams throats red and raw.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2021
  • Trim and style the straw (refer to video) and adorn with wired star ribbon.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The crowd roared in agreement: this was how our hot-wired fan base should ride.
    Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The unit comes, ready to install, pre-wired with a corded plug.
    Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The streamlined design of the wired Rival 710 felt great in our hand.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The Echo Buds with a wired charging case are also on sale for $20 less.
    Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Xbox One headset is double the price of the wired model.
    Arnold Carreiro, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2021
  • If a wired headset is more your style, check out the HyperX Cloud Stinger.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 14 Sep. 2021
  • There was a wired heart thumping, a pig head spinning, a monkey on a cross and the skull of a bull.
    Maya Salam, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The video has a hard-wired connection to [Joseph’s] studio in L.A.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The brake pedal feels a little less wired than the rest of the car, but the binders wind the speedo back toward 0 in a hurry.
    Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Nothing compares to the sweet relief of ditching a wired bra at the end of a long day.
    Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
  • For wired charging, Google offers up to 30W for the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There wasn’t a wired connection between the MacBook and the iPad.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 9 June 2021
  • It’s weirdly hard-wired in the culture, as sure as Tuesday means tacos.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2021
  • It’s not just police who will ask for gift cards or wired money.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Attendees are asked to bring a pair of wired headphones for the radios.
    New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • From there, the query finds its way across multiple wired links to Google’s server.
    Bhaskar Krishnamachari, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The wired headphone is the most humble of phone accessories.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The AirPods with a wired charging case, the cheapest option of the group, can be found for as little as $119.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Humans are hard-wired to seek beauty in others of our species.
    New York Times, 25 June 2019
  • The young condors got mild shocks from hot-wired training towers, placed in their pens.
    Jak Wonderly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2021
  • Andersen said wired cages over the nests allow the birds to walk in and out and keep predators from coming in.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Gone are the days of wired speakers, or a few paltry headphone options to pair with your stylish Bose Wave CD radio.
    Parker Hall, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024

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