big wheel

Example Sentences

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In a visual medium such as film or television, the writer is often viewed as an invisible spoke in a very big wheel.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023

Dave Boy screaming his big wheel down the giant hill on 102nd Street.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

Paramedics loaded the injured hiker into a big wheel stretcher and safely got him down the rest of the trail.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2021

Kives’s road to becoming a big wheel in the Democratic money machine began in June 2001, when he was an undergraduate at Stanford.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2020

In the first week of June 1893 Ferris’s men began prying the last timbers and planks from the falsework that had encased and supported the big wheel during its assembly.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson