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• My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.From the entry child
• “They would say, ‘I got a real sled head today,’” Morris said.2020 July 26, Matthew Futterman, “Sledhead”, in New York Times. From the entry sled head
• A dog sled snowhook works almost as well, though they are tougher to work in overflows.2020 December 26, John Schandelmeier, “The first step in extracting your snowmachine from overflow: Avoid overflow”, in Anchorage Daily News. From the entry snowhook
• Cederstrand was all over the ice, whipping his sled around and firing pucks into the net.2018 August 8, Bill Graveland, “'I'll get better': Paralyzed Humboldt Broncos player working to improve at sledge hockey”, in CBC. From the entry insane
• Leaving the ship, I lifted snowhooks and sledded over toward the Canadian border.2013, Larry Kaniut, Tales from the Edge: True Adventures in Alaska. From the entry snowhook
• I set things up for the grav sled support and the Averonian operation.2011, R Richard, Second Chance King of Avuls, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry grav
• Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice.2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55. From the entry cutter
• Supplies are carried from the caches to buildings by hand or by man-haul sleds .1958, Reports and Documents - Volume 5, page 122. From the entry man-haul
• Besides, a sled had to be built, a sled strong enough to carry fourteen cylinders of oxygen.1953, Richard Marsten, Rocket to Luna, Winston, page 140. From the entry overexcessive
• In New England a 'zoogler' is a loader of sleds used to skid logs.1945, The Southern Lumberman, volume 171, page 37. From the entry zoogler
• Bring Fritzy sled, new wubber boots, caraway kuchen — evrysing fwat Fritzy like.1912, Fanny Lee McKinney, Nora-Square-Accounts, page 145. From the entry wubber
• He took the idea from the man who had provided the sleds last year and arranged a megagame of musical chairs.2013, Elizabeth LaBan, The Tragedy Paper. From the entry megagame
• Without a spare (added evidence of a deranged mind) I press on, the sled grinding away on bare aluminum.2013, Jim Lanier, Beyond Ophir: Confessions of an Iditarod Musher, An Alaska Odyssey. From the entry plasticless
• So I brought you down the trail on the sled, put you in my car and, shazam, here we are.2009, K. L. Denman, Me, Myself and Ike, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry shazam
• They were popularized by kicksledding and dog scootering – used to keep sled dogs in shape in summer.2009 March 24, “Bicycle? Scooter? Actually, it's both”, in Toronto Star. From the entry kicksled
• The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled.2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry wrap
• Yet many pure-bred, if unregistered, Eskimos are still kept along the Canadian border for use in sled racing.1958, Henry P. Davis, The Modern Dog Encyclopedia, page 292. From the entry Eskimo
• Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled.1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4. From the entry mush
• They were unable to move the sled.1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &…. From the entry mush
• The influential boardsmith Al Merrick is pictured with a shred sled that would soon find its way beneath the feet of some local hot dogger.2023 September 22, Molly Young, “They Came, They Shaped, They Shredded”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hot dogger
• They'd brought out more sleds, and there was a nice mix of old-fashioned wooden toboggans and plastic discs, plus steerable sleds and crazy carpets.2019, Ezekiel Boone, The Mansion: A Novel. From the entry steerable
• In fact Bob had worked side by side with manbots at his first job, on an assembly line in Detroit, making jet sleds.2019, H. D. Johnson, Altair 9 The Beginning. From the entry manbot
• He will continue carving switchbacks, using body english jumping from one side of his sled to the other, as he continues climbing higher and higher.2002 April 29, mixgreg, “Mountain Sledding”, in rec.sport.snowmobiles (Usenet). From the entry serpentine
• His body was jammed so tightly in the carryall of the dog sled that I had difficulty slipping my arm under him.1959, William A. Leising, Arctic Wings, page 121. From the entry dogsled
• A sled dog learns that by the time she's hungry, her musher has already prepared a meal; by the time she's tired, she has a warm bed.2020 September 23, Blair Braverman, “What my sled dogs taught me about planning for the unknown”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry musher
• The same logic applies to leg presses; the more you lower the sled, the harder your hams have to work, as long as you're controlling the weight.2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23. From the entry leg press
• In both the handheld and body-mounted versions, the sled connects to the rest of the rig through a gimble, which provides a full, flexible range of movement.2006, Ian David Aronson, DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish, page 60. From the entry gimble
• How one repairs a broken sled, the quickest way to unfoul the dog lines, how to prevent the dogs from tangling the lines after stops, and so on.2002, David Thomas Murphy, German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870-1940, page 128. From the entry unfoul
• Wherever there were tracks of children, sleds, large dogs, other couples, or a solitary walker with long, steady paces, these footholes had filled with a veneer of ice.1952, Ben Maddow, Forty-four Gravel Street, page 99. From the entry foothole
• After a fine record of doing chores up North, conscientious Roly and Poly fall out of Santa's sled on Christmas Eve and land ""kerfluff"" in snowy wilds.1952, Dorothy Sherrill, The Santa Claus Bears. From the entry kerfluff
• "A chaser follows the logs to the landing, often riding in a rigging sled hollowed out of a log, which is attached to the rear log.1913, Ralph Clement Bryant, Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States, page 219. From the entry chaser
• With quick presence of mind, Ootah grasped the rear upstander of the sled, which had begun to slide to and fro, and planted his harpoon in the ice.1913, T. Everett Harré, The Eternal Maiden, J. J. Little & Ives Company, pages 216–217. From the entry upstander

Meaning of sled

1. noun A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
2. noun A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
3. noun A snowmobile.

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Questions about sled in a sentence

How do you use sled in a sentence?

Sled is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.”

What is a short sentence with sled?

“They were unable to move the sled.”

What does sled mean?

Sled means a small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.