How to Use wheelhouse in a Sentence

wheelhouse

noun

• In the dark, the captain paced back and forth across the wheelhouse.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• The style and shade are both in the classic wheelhouse.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
• The next deck is equipped with a wheelhouse and a scenic sky lounge.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
• Charlie May wait with him in the warmth of the wheelhouse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The bow and wheelhouse of a small boat jutted from the back wall.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• In the wheelhouse, Casto flipped on the speaker to talk to the crew.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• The staging is her sixth for the Met, and at first glance, the work looked to be square in her wheelhouse.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Another went to the wheelhouse, and the third watched a movie in the galley.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
• Better yet, head to the wheelhouse to tell the captain.
  — Ginger Dingus, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
• The scene gets laughs, and is squarely in Stiller’s wheelhouse.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• All Styles had to do was dance and belt out a smidgeon of Bowie—right in his wheelhouse.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 16 Apr. 2017
• It’s the least showy role, which is not in my wheelhouse to begin with.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• For them, the language about love and peace is bad, or just not in their wheelhouse.
  — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
• For them, the language about love and peace is bad, or just not in their wheelhouse. . . .
  — Stephanie McCrummen, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• On the Naknek River at the protest, crews share coffee in the wheelhouses.
  — Jack Darrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Legend told Witrado the song choice was right in the 19-year-old’s wheelhouse.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• The final test is the 40-yard dash, which places Symmonds back in his wheelhouse.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2022
• But while opera may not be Bey’s wheelhouse, per se, she would not be lost at sea.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The design duo decided to place the wheelhouse at the tip of the bow in between the upper and main deck.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2022
• This is not the time to take on something outside your wheelhouse.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2020
• The first crew member awoke in the wheelhouse to a noise and got up to investigate, the NTSB said.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Both tracks feel to be very much in the Colombian heartthrob’s wheelhouse.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2022
• Stracke hung a tree stand in the buck’s wheelhouse, then grunted and rattled the giant in for a 5-yard shot.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Beating the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round was in their wheelhouse.
  — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
• Smith-Pelly didn’t give up on his own dump, and Beagle found him with a pass right in the wheelhouse.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 2 June 2018
• But there was no system that would have triggered an alarm above deck in the wheelhouse.
  — Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
• Owen’s discomfort with the plot puts this sketch right in his wheelhouse.
  — Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
• The Suns have a style that works and a leader in Chris Paul who is in his wheelhouse as far as leading this team.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• That feels like something in her wheelhouse — a performance that circles back with an awareness of itself.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
• While there’s no denying that Howard has made the ultimate movie that’s not in his wheelhouse, what’s most different about it isn’t the eccentric subject matter.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024