big wheel

Example Sentences

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Name a funny guy who hasn’t taken his big wheel for a spin around the children’s shelf and I’ll show you … Conan O’Brien.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

The council said the big wheel and ice rink had also returned to Centenary Square as part of seasonal festivities and would be open until 9 January.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2021

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