wicket

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Recent Examples of wicket Green Street’s impressive large white arches — referred to as wickets and reaching 25 feet in height — also incorporate design elements of Everything Changes with a Dream with maple-leaf patterns similar to the large sculpture. Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025 Another old hand, Rashid, took all three South African wickets to avoid total humiliation. Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The Unicorns quickly worked out a deal with the Coliseum authority and secured the wicket that was used at the World Cup in New York last year, which was being installed at the Coliseum on Sunday. Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 8 June 2025 Ireland got off to an impressive start with a 137-run opening wicket partnership between Ross Adair and skipper Paul Stirling, who made 52. Mark Gleeson, Reuters, 29 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for wicket
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Noun
  • Textile composite’s on-demand dimpling The textile composite’s on-demand dimpling is the result of a lattice pattern.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2025
  • All this is wrapped in a soft body made of custom 3D lattice polymer structures and wrapped in machine washable fabric.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The front of the house features double doors and two floor-to-ceiling windows to bring in as much natural light as possible.
    Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Prefab Customizable Tiny Home This cabin-style tiny home is easy to set up and primed to let in gorgeous natural light with a glass double door entrance and a number of windows surrounding the house.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His stomach dropped as the trapdoor opened beneath him, plunging him into a void of air.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The gas would fill a box that was divided in two by a wall with a trapdoor.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to Costa, a preliminary investigation found that the victim was delivering mail to the residence when a 5-year-old pit bull forced the storm door open and attacked him.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The entrance to the car park even passes under a portcullis and guests’ bags go through an X-ray machine hidden in the rock-face.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • Matilda, a recent high school graduate, has grown up with a flighty mother and a revolving door of homes.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The show consisted of Dyrdek welcoming a revolving door of guest panelists to watch and comment on viral clips.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Wicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wicket. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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