hot-wire

How To Use hot-wire In A Sentence

• He smashed off the plastic cowling surrounding the ignition lock and attempted to hot-wire the car but was unable to start it.
• No point trying for the car, he'd never be careless enough to leave the keys in it, and life had not prepared her to hot-wire a car. DOLL'S EYES
• As the owner banged on the window, one of the thieves hot-wired the car, whilst the other made a rude gesture.
• A youth was inside the car, attempting to hot-wire it.
• The list of people I'm hot-wired to bust is a fairly long one, including but not limited to anyone who does one of the following things to women: Condescends, objectifies, ridicules, trivializes, and so forth. Karen Stabiner: The Philip Roth Reader: When He Was Good He Was Very, Very Good -- and Something of a Feminist
• From my third floor vantage point, I could see a young would-be car thief trying to hot-wire an old van that I had not seen move in over a year.
• He hot-wired the Caterpillar forklift after reading how to operate it in the local library.
• Although a hot-wire anemometer is simple in principle, its actual use is a matter of some complexity.
• A youth was inside the car, attempting to hot-wire it.
• The axial velocity and stagnation point offset of two opposed jets coming from two asymmetric nozzles oppositely located with large separation distance were studied by using hot-wire anemometry (HWA).