Sled is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like sleigh or sledge. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sled in a sentence
Related words
Sled meaning
- A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
- A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
- A snowmobile.
Using Sled
- The main meaning on this page is: A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it. | A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs. | A snowmobile.
- Useful related words include: sleigh, sledge, vehicle, ride.
- In the example corpus, sled often appears in combinations such as: the sled, sled dog, dog sled.
Context around Sled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sled
- In this selection, "sled" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nop, dog, trail, dog, dogs and team stand out and add context to how "sled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include iditarod trail sled dog race and a nop sled large enough. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sled" sits close to words such as andersen, burroughs and cadillac, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A woman pulls a child on a sled at Cricket Hill. (11 words)
NOP sled technique main Illustration of a NOP-sled payload on the stack. (13 words)
Abandoning that sled, the three men headed for Fairbanks about 160 miles away. (13 words)
As a massive curtain of clouds lifted, we could see part of the Serengeti plains far beyond on the left, the sled-shaped Lake Natron way off in front and the remote volcano to our right, its top crowned with a cloud mass bigger than the mountain. (47 words)
Dan Boyle, of Westminster, had brought his three children out to sled — Eli, 10, Ebin, 7 and Ella, 8. Although he wasn’t entirely thrilled with the late date of the snow, he said it was nice to get out and sled. (42 words)
The X-Road solution for Greenland will be called Pitu, after the Greenlandic word for the link of the harness between the dog sled and sled dogs ensuring smooth operation of the dog sled team. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The X-Road solution for Greenland will be called Pitu, after the Greenlandic word for the link of the harness between the dog sled and sled dogs ensuring smooth operation of the dog sled team.
Attentive sled dogs await the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
All the dogs used in the film were provided by Snowy Owl Sled Dogs Tours in Canmore and the film highlights the incredible bond between a musher and his lead sled dog, Togo.
Musher Matthew Failor and his sled dog team crossing the Bering Sea toward a prior checkpoint, Koyuk, during the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The footage shows one of the girls sitting on the sled, which is propelled across the snow by the wind from two leaf blowers strapped to each side of the sled.
Dan Boyle, of Westminster, had brought his three children out to sled — Eli, 10, Ebin, 7 and Ella, 8. Although he wasn’t entirely thrilled with the late date of the snow, he said it was nice to get out and sled.
In bobsledding, it is a two or four-man team and they have to push the sled for up to 50 meters before getting in the sled.
To prepare, drivers and sled dogs participate in a sled dog race before the first snowfall of the year in the U.P. 200 Dryland Dash.
Another problem is that the NOP-sled requires a much larger amount of memory in which to hold a NOP-sled large enough to be of any use.
Mertz was skiing and Mawson was on his sled with his weight dispersed, but Ninnis was jogging beside the second sled.
NOP sled technique main Illustration of a NOP-sled payload on the stack.
The doubles ice racing sled is very similar to the singles ice racing sled.
The pilot does most of the steering, and the brakeman stops the sled after crossing the finish by pulling the sled's brake lever.
Abandoning that sled, the three men headed for Fairbanks about 160 miles away.
Activities include indoor sports such as pickleball or wheelchair basketball that can be played on an indoor court, as well as ice rink sports such as sled hockey.
As a massive curtain of clouds lifted, we could see part of the Serengeti plains far beyond on the left, the sled-shaped Lake Natron way off in front and the remote volcano to our right, its top crowned with a cloud mass bigger than the mountain.
As the 6-year-old trudged over to the other of the church pulling his sled behind him, he was beaming from ear to ear.
A woman pulls a child on a sled at Cricket Hill.
Barber asks if he agrees that it was not full cooperation that Alex did not tell SLED that he was at the kennel.
For the January 1967 blizzard, photographer Bob Langer snapped a postal worker pulling his mailbag on a sled.
Common combinations with sled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: