How to Use wheelie in a Sentence
wheelie
noun- He did a wheelie on his bike.
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He is known to pass crowds and offer a midrace wheelie, just for fun.
—Jason Gay, WSJ, 9 July 2018
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He can be seen popping a wheelie on a dirt bike during one of the scenes.
—Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2017
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Popping wheelies or driving the wrong way down the road, are.
—Charles Rabin and Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 11 Jan. 2018
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The tractor did a wheelie, throwing me backward, head over heels to the ground.
—David Roper, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
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Duce herself learned to do a wheelie on her bike and shared videos of her learning process.
—Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2020
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The next minute, Scott was kicking up the dirt doing wheelies and laughing.
—Lynn Arditi, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
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One of the riders pops a wheelie, and others stand up on their pedals.
—Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
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Some popped wheelies, some road no hands, others stood on the pedals and bopped to the blaring music.
—Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2017
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The video ends after the group has had its fun, popping wheelies on bikes and partying it up.
—Tamar Herman, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
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The beast came with drag radials, a transmission brake, just one seat and can pop a wheelie.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 3 July 2022
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The group sped back and forth past the sergeant, with some riders popping wheelies and traveling against the flow of traffic, the report says.
—Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 18 Oct. 2017
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The 13-year-old rode down a walking trail and popped a wheelie, but the bike landed on an 8-year-old boy, according to police.
—Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
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Who ever thought a man and his wheelie suitcase could cause so much outrage?
—Fox News, 6 June 2017
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Let the roadies don their spandex and perch on their 700c wheels; the common man will e-bike home from work, slugging a tall boy and pulling wheelies off the curb.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2017
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A good suitcase: My battered old wheelie suitcase has taken me around the world now for 22 years.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2017
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Hey, maybe this is what the creeper gear—the lowest of the seven—is really for, rather than trying to get the Bronco to pop a wheelie.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2021
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Regular customers will still be allowed two bags, but the larger wheelie bag will need to be checked at the gate—free of charge.
—Natasha Bach, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
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The staging lights, the wheelies, the hateful cumulus of tire smoke enveloping the burnout box—to Boomers the Demon looks like Heaven.
—WSJ, 20 July 2017
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In the shelter’s courtyard, six young men in wheelchairs popped wheelies and chased each other around while a few children lunged at chickens.
—Alice Driver, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2018
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For him, a wheelie symbolized the stress of a harried traveler barreling through the airport to catch a flight.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
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There was polite applause for mountain bike stunt rider Jeff Lenosky, who did wheelies around the schoolyard.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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Marshawn Lynch did a wheelie on his bike down a Scottish street, right toward a bus — before returning to two wheels and avoiding the bus.
—Daniel Mano, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2017
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His love of wheelies did not stop when his military career began.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
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My sensei explained only by moving my hips back and keeping my arms straight would the nirvana of a wheelie be attained.
—Peter Rubin, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2012
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Naturally, the new one can still do a wheelie—as seen in several press photos.
—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2023
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But then as far as leaping over or riding up onto the roof of the cop car, or flying over the swimming pool at the luau, or taking Michelle Pfeiffer for a wheelie — no.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023
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Also, according to Guinness World Records, the Demon is the first production car capable of pulling a wheelie off the line.
—WSJ, 20 July 2017
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Standing in is a group of five teenagers, practicing wheelies and other dazzling, reckless feats.
—Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
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The violation occurred when he was arrested after being involved in a fight and later for popping wheelies on a dirt bike.
—Chloe Melas, CNN, 9 May 2023
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