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.
• Place a wire rack on a rimmed sheet pan.
  — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 1 Feb. 2026
• High-end ones hang it with string or wire.
  — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
• Cool in pie plate on a wire rack for 1 hour.
  — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
• This is acting on the high wire.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
• Transfer to wire rack and cool.
  — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
• Set a wire rack in a rimmed baking sheet.
  — Emily Teel, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2026
• Place seam side down on a wire rack; let cool 1 hour.
  — Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
• Green floral wire is your friend here.
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
• Spaceships are full of wires and pipes.
  — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2026
• Transfer pans to wire racks to cool.
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
• Lots of wires, lots of insane stunts.
  — Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
• Bake your chicken thighs on a wire rack.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
• Bake your chicken thighs on a wire rack.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2026
• Remove cake from pan; cool on a wire rack.
  — Maddy Bendgen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2026
• Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack.
  — CBS News, 24 May 2026
• Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack.
  — Kate Bradshaw, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
• Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool.
  — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• One of them is seen with wire or bolt cutters.
  — Joe Holden, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
• Where will the free loot be on the waiver wire?
  — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• Remove from the pan and drain on a wire rack.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2026
• The team didn’t just use a standard wire screen.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
• Don’t leave him on the waiver wire this week.
  — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
• The fence is 8 feet tall and topped with barbed wire and alarmed.
  — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
• Slide the board out and bind the baskets with wire.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
• Both charge at up to 45W via wire.
  — PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025

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?
• This guy is wired the right way.
  — James Boyd, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• That’s kind of how we’re wired.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
• Or were you wired from the work?
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
• That’s just not how he is wired.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
• That's just what we're wired to do.
  — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
• We’re wired to breathe through our nose.
  — Sarah Philip, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
• Tell me that guy’s not wired the right way.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
• That’s easy to say when you’re not wired this way.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2026
• Moss is just wired to go, in all aspects.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
• Hardly worth the call, wired to the wall.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
• Maybe two were wired backwards?
  — New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
• The controllers may come wired to give that retro feel.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
• Doug’s place wasn’t wired for cable.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
• Thread fine-gauge florist wire through the hole and wire the mold to the grapevine.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
• For those wired to take dead aim at pin flags, golf clubs have long filled that role.
  — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• And the way that my brain is wired at this point is also not my fault.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• Annika found out she was hard wired the same way.
  — Dana Oneil, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
• We are wired to read rising usage as progress.
  — Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
• Young people are wired to learn by doing.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
• That’s how the people in our building are wired.
  — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• He’s wired to keep a day from being wasted.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
• Humans are wired to process images faster than words.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026