wire

Example Sentences

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He threaded a tiny camera on a thin wire through my nose and down my throat.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

Even down to the wire, many people can still quickly gather the needed paperwork, Steber said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

The barbs were placed on a wire, and a second wire was twisted around it to hold the barbs in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Arfield, though, believes "this title race is going to go right down to the wire" and that none of the three teams will be thinking about where the points might come in the run-in.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

And the bombardment also failed to flatten the Germans’ barbed-wire entanglements, merely tossing the barbed wire around and creating even more of a barrier than before.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman