How to Use cartwheel in a Sentence

cartwheel

1 of 2 noun

• The children turned cartwheels and somersaults on the grass.
• Walz followed that up with a cartwheel video of his own.
  — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2019
• Some did cartwheel flips while running across the field.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Simpson started the dance with the famous cartwheel from the movie.
  — Brian Gosset, star-telegram, 21 Apr. 2018
• Avoiding the work, and a goodbye to the river, the kids and one of the guides did cannonballs and cartwheels off the front of a raft.
  — Jim Buchta, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2017
• Some girls did cartwheels on the grass while a couple of people danced.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• Kharsya set the device on the curb and threw herself into a cartwheel.
  — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• The number ends with Bobbie doing a cartwheel into the splits on the edge of the jury box.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 June 2023
• If all that matters is the result, then the Ducks are doing cartwheels.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• Selma Blair stunned the audience with a cartwheel and a split mid dance!
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• There have been cartwheels and stomp troupes and rollerblading barbie dolls.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
• Thorgy plays the violin, of course, and does cartwheels.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• My daughter is doing cartwheels in the front lawn this weekend.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 10 Mar. 2020
• But Brown gracefully twists in a cartwheel and then rounds into a backflip — a perfect copy of the kid.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
• Over 40 minutes, Haynes managed to navigate the plane to Sioux City and bring it to the ground, where a wing plowed into the ground and sent the plane into a cartwheel.
  — chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Early-2000s-era Britney Spears pumped from inside; a kid and a server had a cartwheel contest on the sidewalk next to us.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 11 Sep. 2017
• Rooms big enough to do cartwheels, bathrooms with soaking tubs, and a swanky piano bar add to its appeal.
  — Elise Craig, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• In a final chain sequence, each one’s steps include a cartwheel.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• The 21-year-old gets creative with funky-patterned socks for his races and celebrates with the latest dance crazes or cartwheels.
  — SI.com, 24 July 2019
• Guthrie poses outside with Vale in the third photo while the last slide offers a glimpse at Vale's cartwheel talents as cheered on by Charley.
  — Candace Ganger Powell, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• At one point, Waller-Bridge does a cartwheel using Styles’s legs for support, which is cool and impressive.
  — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
• Back in the title picture, Zhang didn’t disappoint and capped the victory with a cartwheel.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
• For the first hour, dancers did cartwheels down 53rd Street, high school bands marched to the booming energy of the drum line, and children rode past on their bikes adorned in red, white and blue streamers.
  — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
• The movement is nearly as surprising as the verbal cartwheels — no easy feat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• This nasty habit and the overall collapse of hygiene have local rats doing cartwheels.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• By age 4, when most preschoolers are able to perform a wobbly cartwheel at best, Ohashi had mastered a back handspring.
  — Marie Claire, 19 Apr. 2019
• Harden then performed a cartwheel to celebrate the sales.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• The stock market has been turning cartwheels since Donald Trump’s election.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2017
• These would include everything from learning how to do a cartwheel to STEM classes.
  — Peter High, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
• And yes, this one takes a while, but when your creation starts to look like a real basketball, your inner child will do a perfectly sloppy joy cartwheel on the front lawn of your brain.
  — Sam Reece, SELF, 12 Oct. 2023

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cartwheel

2 of 2 verb

• The car hit the pole and then cartwheeled across the road.
• She cartwheeled across the floor.
• Freedom to cartwheel on the sand and splash in the surf.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• A small body, the size of Cat, cartwheels past: a baby.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Just as the man was about to seize them, Zdarsky let go, the papers cartwheeling across the grass in the stiff breeze.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• First one grouse, a puff of exploded feathers, and the dead bird cartwheeled to earth.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
• As the crowd erupted in cheers, Lautner cartwheeled and back-flipped (a nod to their scene in 2010’s Valentine’s Day) and wrapped Swift in a big hug.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 July 2023
• The Faire is science, dressed up as carnival and art and cartwheeling.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 19 May 2016
• Vukovich's car wound up cartwheeling outside an outer wall and on fire.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
• The best room The Presidential Suite takes up the majority of the 60th floor and has a living room large enough to cartwheel through.
  — Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 29 May 2023
• So upon landing the gear folded and the right wing dropped, causing Furias to cartwheel.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• There are spiders that cartwheel across the desert, and some salamanders back-flip down boulders.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• The women do backflips from the ropes onto their opponents. Cartwheeling kicks land on backs and chests.
  — Barbara Marshall, ajc, 9 May 2017
• Her mind cartwheeled, imagining a sibling for her daughter, a small baby to hold, even for a little while.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Adults sat in lawn chairs or on blankets while kids darted around the grass, cartwheeling, throwing frisbees and laughing.
  — Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2019
• Some people can do a full back bend, whereas others prefer to cartwheel out.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2019
• Do your own three-legged races, toss-your-shoe contests and cartwheel competitions.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2020
• Built to Spill plays cartwheeling, daydreaming tunes that float above it all, while Afghan Whigs specializes in darker dirges from down below.
  — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2018
• At this year’s event in April, shirtless male acrobats cartwheeled and stood on each other’s shoulders while financiers sipped cocktails and mingled.
  — Kirsten Grind, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2017
• Now 77, Johnson has released Betsey: A Memoir, a chronicle of her life so far, and a fashion legacy that’s, yes, cartwheeled her right into our hearts.
  — Betsey Johnson, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• The singer then surprised the crowd by bringing King, Lautner and Cash out after premiering the video — Lautner even surprised the crowd by cartwheeling and backflipping onstage.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 9 July 2023
• According to the report, the witness said the plane climbed up to 100 feet before descending and cartwheeling onto the water upside down with seven people on board.
  — baltimoresun.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The ensuing impact upon the water caused the aircraft to cartwheel and severely damage the front cockpit, making escape for Capt.
  — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Finds from the past several years include, for instance, a North African spider that cartwheels its way out of danger and a pancake batfish from Louisiana that hops on its fins.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Finds from the past several years include, for instance, a North African spider that cartwheels its way out of danger and a pancake batfish from Louisiana that hops on its fins.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• In Schumann’s outpourings Lang heard giddy playfulness, and set her men cartwheeling and clapping.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• The Austrian great won that race three days after walking away unhurt from a spectacular cartwheeling crash in downhill.
  — Graham Dunbar, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• As Juno neared Jupiter, the spinning spacecraft started cartwheeling five times per minute, which helped stabilize it during orbit insertion.
  — National Geographic, 1 July 2016
• And amid such a tumultuous political climate, a little compassion — by way of a six-foot-tall queen cartwheeling across the stage in a floor-length gown — may be just what pop culture needs, argues Mattel.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2018
• The Canadian co-directors (who were nominated for three other shorts before this one) show the fella, his clothes knocked clean off, cartwheeling through the air — and all the way up into space — as his life flashes before his eyes.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024