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
• Let bread cool on baking sheet 5 minutes; transfer to a wire rack to cool until ready to serve.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2024
• The 26-year-old top-line winger found no taker for his services on the waiver wire, where he was placed Tuesday.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2023

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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
• Girls at the NextGen Workshop learn how to follow schematics to wire avionics for airplanes.
  — Emma Barnett, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 7 May 2024