Wheelhouse is an English word with synonyms like pilothouse or compartment. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wheelhouse in a sentence
Wheelhouse meaning
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
Synonyms of Wheelhouse
Using Wheelhouse
- The main meaning on this page is: A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill. | A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill. | The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
- Useful related words include: pilothouse, compartment.
- In the example corpus, wheelhouse often appears in combinations such as: the wheelhouse, his wheelhouse, my wheelhouse.
Context around Wheelhouse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wheelhouse
- In this selection, "wheelhouse" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, usual, retail, building and pods stand out and add context to how "wheelhouse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in your wheelhouse and are my wheelhouse. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wheelhouse" sits close to words such as abaco, abandons and abramovich, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wheelhouse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He has that in his wheelhouse. (6 words)
Do you still want to stay in your wheelhouse? (9 words)
A view of the pods at the Wheelhouse Pods in Burtonport. (11 words)
He added of working with Miranda, "So the song that was most in my wheelhouse is 'Wild Uncharted Waters' where Lin was very insecure about finding the right lyrics, because he felt he was trying to step into Howard's shoes with a song like that. (46 words)
Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios and Just Entertainment are behind the series, which is executive produced by Brent Montgomery, Pam Healey, Will Nothacker, Justin W. Hochberg, Liz Fine, Adam Sher, Deanna Markoff, Ed Simpson, and Luke Neslage. (36 words)
The Metal Men are one of the most underrated teams in DC's wheelhouse but they haven't reached the same levels of success or popularity that they had during their original run. (33 words)
Do you still want to stay in your wheelhouse? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thea Chase, Business Manager for the Wheelhouse Retail Makerspace and Incubator, provided an update noting that the facade of the Wheelhouse building was the next phase of work.
An opportunity may not feel right because it is something out of our wheelhouse or just beyond our expertise.
A view of the pods at the Wheelhouse Pods in Burtonport.
But it’s funny because all of those things are my wheelhouse.
Do you still want to stay in your wheelhouse?
He added of working with Miranda, "So the song that was most in my wheelhouse is 'Wild Uncharted Waters' where Lin was very insecure about finding the right lyrics, because he felt he was trying to step into Howard's shoes with a song like that.
Her music doesn’t fit into my usual wheelhouse, as I don’t listen to a lot of folk, but she’s someone I always check for.
If you Butler’s previous action movies, then will be right in your wheelhouse.
In the wheelhouse of a crab boat named Heidi Sue, Mike Pettis watched the gray whale surface and shoot water through its blowhole.
I will never forget my first week in the wheelhouse with the owner who was retiring and showing me the operation before I took over.
Lush, vibrant and surprisingly homogeneous, this half was Ma’s wheelhouse.
Neither of those figures puts them in the wheelhouse of what Hopkins wants.
The current fast-changing and tense geopolitical environment is driving the need for more defense spending, in our view, playing into the company's wheelhouse.
The Metal Men are one of the most underrated teams in DC's wheelhouse but they haven't reached the same levels of success or popularity that they had during their original run.
This is right in his wheelhouse when you talk about movies that are fun, that are for family, dealing with a small ensemble cast.
Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios and Just Entertainment are behind the series, which is executive produced by Brent Montgomery, Pam Healey, Will Nothacker, Justin W. Hochberg, Liz Fine, Adam Sher, Deanna Markoff, Ed Simpson, and Luke Neslage.
And then you have Dave making the choices he's been making and playing characters that would seem totally out of his wheelhouse, but they're not, which speaks to his talent.
But he’s long been drawn to Japanese cuisine, and figured that specialty might give him an edge against Flay by going a little outside the famed chef’s wheelhouse.
He has that in his wheelhouse.
The skipper of a fishing vessel had left the wheelhouse unattended before a collision with another boat, marine investigators have found.
Common combinations with wheelhouse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the wheelhouse 12×
- his wheelhouse 7×
- my wheelhouse 4×
- wheelhouse of 4×
- your wheelhouse 3×
- wheelhouse but 3×
- wheelhouse building 2×
- wheelhouse group 2×
- her wheelhouse 2×
- of wheelhouse 2×