wieldy in a sentence
Examples
- Norman Hyman of Milwaukee sends a 1994 New Yorker article by Jack Winter : " I was furling my wieldy umbrella when I saw . . . a descript person, a woman in a state of total array.
- The birds commonly feed on the carcasses of dead animals, breaking the bones into more wieldy pieces by dropping them onto rocks from mid-air, a practice which earned the birds the nickname " bonebreakers ."
- It would surely be more unwieldy than the mass / energy ratio would imply, for the same reason nuclear weapons are more wieldy than their fissile cores ( it would take some considerable apparatus to keep such a weapon from blowing up before you wanted it to ).
- He explains his moniker and artist name " B'eirth " as a contraction for his " less wieldy " given name, and " B'ee " as a simpler version still, with a fitting polysemy : his father was a beekeeper.