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Example sentences for "wheelchair"

Lexicographically close words:
wheedlesome; wheedling; wheel; wheelbarrow; wheelbarrows; wheele; wheeled; wheelers; wheeles; wheelhouse
  1. I think he actually forgot about those stars along with other things that had meant so much to him when he was tied to his wheelchair and couldn't do anything but wait and think.

  2. He'd been sitting in his wheelchair at the west end of the carpet-grass strip, staring out over the palmetto flats toward the highway.

  3. It was tough enough to be pinned to a wheelchair without being able to wiggle so much as a toe.

  4. I was trying to remember just what it was about my stumbling over Joey's wheelchair that had given me that screwy double-exposure feeling of familiarity.

  5. I left Doc shaking his head at the sky and went over to give Joey, who had called it a night and was hand-rolling his wheelchair toward the Pond trailer, a boost up the entrance ramp.

  6. But in a couple of weeks he was stumping around on crutches and after that he never went near his wheelchair again.

  7. He had an abnormally large and hairless head, and his body was muffled to the throat in a voluminous cloak, the folds of which fell over and enveloped most of the wheelchair itself.

  8. Ward saw that the question came from an individual in a wheelchair a few feet in front of them.

  9. Around the tubular container wrapped the snake-like trunk, plucking the wheelchair and its occupant from the floor and dangling them high in air.

  10. While Garth glanced unhappily behind himself to notice that there was no sign of the doorway through which he had entered, The Visitor's wheelchair buzzed swiftly into the distance toward the left.

  11. A small door slid open and Garth followed the wheelchair through.

  12. The head of The Visitor bobbed affirmatively several times as he propelled his wheelchair a few inches forward.

  13. The wheelchair rolled slowly toward a blank wall, and an invisible door snicked open just before it arrived.

  14. The huddled figure in the wheelchair cackled in a brief laugh.

  15. Laird Duncan used his wheelchair as an excuse, but since he had taken up black magic as a hobby he had, she suspected, been actually afraid to go anywhere near a church.

  16. How could a man who was confined to a wheelchair go up that flight of stairs?

  17. Jim was sitting up most of the day now, and his wheelchair was rolled into the room after all the girls had come.

  18. Olga impatiently jerked her dress from his grasp, but something in his eyes held her against her will, and under cover of a burst of laughter from another group, she leaned over the wheelchair and ungraciously enough asked what he wanted.

  19. The girls gathered about the wheelchair and Jim held out his hand to each one as Laura mentioned her name.

  20. A power-driven wheelchair sped up to them.

  21. The wheelchair tracks abruptly made a ninety-degree turn and ended at a blank wall.

  22. He pressed a button on the arm of his wheelchair and two bruisers appeared through the walls, in the abrupt way people had of materializing here.

  23. Also it knocks him out of the wheelchair so he's helpless and you get his gun.

  24. The man in the wheelchair whirled and was off, shouting commands to men who materialized high on the walls in cylindrical turrets which the visitor could only think of as battle stations.

  25. He was in a wheelchair unable to walk, unable to control his legs or arms very well, was unable to control his bladder and required a catheter.

  26. Ironically, the only ultimate benefit of his fasting with me was to permit him to suffer a far longer existence in a wheelchair without wasting away and escaping into death.

  27. He had arrived in a wheelchair three months before.

  28. The woman in a wheelchair who had watched him on Thursday was rolling slowly by.

  29. Across the room, a sturdy woman seated in a wheelchair studied him through thick glasses.

  30. The wheelchair was empty at the end of the bed.

  31. Farrow was going down the hall like a professional heading for the wheelchair on a strict order.

  32. It was a neat conversion from wheelchair to wheeled stretcher, but as Farrow trundled me out feet first into the cold, I felt a sort of nervous chill somewhere south of my navel.

  33. To the door down there--three beyond the one you're perceiving now--is there a wheelchair there?

  34. No one bothered to look out; she reached the locker room and dusted the wheelchair just as if she'd been getting it for a real patient.

  35. Two big guys in white coats came in, tripped the lever on back of the wheelchair and stretched me out flat and low-slung on the same wheels.

  36. Ledman went sprawling helplessly out into the middle of the floor, the wheelchair upended next to him, its wheels slowly revolving in the air.

  37. They were strapped to the back of the wheelchair in which he sat.

  38. We trudged along together, with him following behind; I could hear the crunch-crunch of the wheelchair as its wheels chewed into the sand.

  39. I wasn't seriously worried about his threat to wipe out the entire Geig Corps, since it was unlikely that one man in a wheelchair could pick us all off.

  40. He opened his mouth to say something, and at that moment I snapped my leg up hard, tearing the tangle-cord with a snicking rasp, and kicked his wheelchair over.

  41. Robert would sit in his wheelchair by the window and time my running to the store and back.

  42. The wheelchair was one of those old large ones with a wicker seat and back.

  43. He was in a wheelchair for quite a while.

  44. He was rolling the wheelchair toward the elevator but abruptly paused "Is that what she's claiming?

  45. Five weeks earlier, she had come through the front door of the Dorian Institute in a wheelchair pushed by her youngest, a bottle blonde named Shelly.

  46. He pushed her wheelchair into the section of the laboratory where a line of computer terminals was stationed.

  47. She was settling into the wheelchair as though she expected it.

  48. Wish we had a wheelchair for her," Aunt Martha confided to Jacqueline over the peaches that they were preserving, in the cool of the morning.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wheelchair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.