How to Use at the wheel in a Sentence

at the wheel

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• People came to trust him as the steady hand at the wheel of the ship.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
• Both require a driver at the wheel ready to steer or brake at any time.
  — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
• That means polishers get paid less for the same amount of hours at the wheel.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
• The display was free of glare from the bright desert sun throughout my hours at the wheel.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• And that is put a steady hand at the wheel and get everybody working.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
• These require a human driver at the wheel ready to steer or brake at any time.
  — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
• Howes and Petersen, sleepy and half dazed, took turns at the wheel on the long drive home.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
• His lawyer said Gutierrez had fallen asleep at the wheel on his way to work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Their teams aren’t set up the right way, and their executive peers are asleep at the wheel.
  — Alex Brueckmann, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• The bus driver was asleep at the wheel, and the drag queens in the back were driving the season.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
• There was never an emergency when Hahn was at the wheel.
  — Ariel Levy, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
• None of which bothered the person fortunate enough to be at the wheel.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
• This city, which can sometimes seem almost asleep at the wheel, is suddenly wide awake.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• This is where Sato knows there’s going to be plenty of trouble ahead with this guy at the wheel.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2024
• Yet on his Bitcoin joyride, the merry prankster’s got no more control than a drunk at the wheel.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• Our mother was at the wheel, our father sitting by her in the passenger seat.
  — Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• In an alarming twist, some thieves are committing the smash-and-grabs while drivers are still at the wheel.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The culmination of Self’s first spin at the wheel in this era arrives now.
  — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
• This shift in mindset—from human in the loop to human at the wheel—is more than semantics.
  — Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• And our corrections officers are so overworked that one of them fell asleep at the wheel and died.
  — Jeff Bridges, The Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2025
• That means my wife or I must always be at the wheel, looking out for obstructions.
  — Dan Parsons, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• With Hardy in fine form at the wheel, Havoc knows what its audience wants.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
• Officers pulled the car over and found Connolly at the wheel.
  — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
• Those at the wheel are encouraged to keep safety top of mind when in Bryson City.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Jan. 2024
• His first turn at the wheel quickly results in a Whammy, and the show proceeds as planned.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
• What was sold to fans as a brief detour has turned into a trip with no destination and with no one at the wheel.
  — David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• Tesla still doesn’t produce or sell cars that are safe to use without a human at the wheel, ready to steer or brake at all times.
  — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
• Cassell had fallen asleep at the wheel, veered off the road and landed in a deep ditch, out of sight of passing motorists.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
• As a gambler, Baby is always down to test his luck and take another spin at the wheel.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2024
• Lauren passed out and woke up in the passenger seat of her car, Biggalo at the wheel.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022