Example sentences for: tire

How can you use “tire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Michael Lewis took a lot of crap from more serious-minded political reporters in 1996 for devoting so much ink to Morry Taylor, the drunken tire salesman from Michigan who made a brief, self-financed run for the Republican nomination.

  • A hot young thing swings on a tire, offering you her drink.

  • I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).

  • Baseball bats, wooden boards, bricks, chains, tire irons, pipes, even garden tools--hoes and rakes.

  • As press critics never tire of saying, the mainstream press's job isn't, or shouldn't be, to jump to conclusions--even in instances such as Flytrap, where Hypothesis and Conclusion seem separated by a very short evidentiary hop.


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