How to Use training wheels in a Sentence

training wheels

plural noun

• Mac Jones still has the training wheels on, but it’s so far so good.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Beyond the braces, the 23-year-old is losing the training wheels.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2021
• San Diego, at this point, is not a place for training wheels.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• The early lead and the coaches not wanting to take the training wheels off his game?
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Asking for patience is fine and fair, but the time has come to remove the training wheels and risk a fall.
  — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• Children must already know how to ride a bike, or the bike must have training wheels.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
• The training wheels are off, and the great adventure has begun.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2022
• This option, unlike the two in Browse, didn’t come with training wheels.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• Think of them first as training wheels, and second as a fail-safe backup.
  — Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2020
• The Miata is the sports-car version of training wheels.
  — Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2018
• So, the earn-a-book program, well, that’s just the training wheels, the scaffolding through which learning takes place. ...
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
• The Mongoose Switch is made for kids who may start out on training wheels, but don’t intend to stay on them for very long.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 30 Sep. 2020
• David has a bike with training wheels, as well as a ride-on pedal tractor and a scooter.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 4 Apr. 2012
• The sooner Shanahan takes the training wheels off his rookie, the better.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2021
• At just $35 a pair, consider these the training wheels of the ugly sneaker trend.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 27 Sep. 2017
• But Johnson’s had nearly four months to get the training wheels out from under him.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2020
• So, there’s some reason to believe that sometime soon the Cubs can take off his training wheels.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• Now in his fourth season with the Thunder, Gilgeous-Alexander is the face of a franchise that should come equipped with training wheels.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• O’Brien is kicking the training wheels off, for both Watson and himself.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2020
• Think of them as stiletto training wheels after a year out of practice.
  — Julia Gall, Marie Claire, 26 May 2021
• Like strapping training wheels to my bike and exploring a new cul-de-sac.
  — Rebecca Woolf, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
• Bob Chapek essentially has training wheels on for the next two years.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• And the next was a message for an 8-year-old-girl who had just gotten her training wheels off her bicycle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Some of us were riding bicycles with training wheels at the age of five while others were learning how to throw down in the kitchen.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 29 June 2022
• The sprout route: for under 6 years old, usually with training wheels.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 10 June 2019
• Ideally, for the Bruins’ future, Swayman’s training wheels would be ready to come off, and the choice would be clear.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
• And he’s Washington-ready, not a naïve outsider who needs D.C. training wheels.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• The room is filled with Lego sets, Barbies, and bicycles with training wheels.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• The moments are few and far between, thanks to the training wheels of a rookie ramp-up and an AC joint sprain that ended that rookie season after just 84 pass attempts.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• In a series of experiments, researchers scared grasshoppers using a robo-dinosaur with training wheels and flapping wings.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024