What's the difference between wheedled and wheeled?

Wheedled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wheedle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
  • (2) Pleading, shouting, wheedling, cajoling: none made any difference whatsoever.
  • (3) At the risk of being a complete bore …” he wheedles to John Reid, then the health secretary.
  • (4) Bird, convinced he wanted to be a writer and performer, had been quietly wheedling his school to teach drama at A-level.
  • (5) Netanyahu should be wooed and wheedled, coaxed and cajoled.
  • (6) He is terribly afraid of seeming self-satisfied, and is trying to wheedle out of the photographer a promise that he won't make him look pleased with himself.
  • (7) Labour and Tory alike may wheedle, protest and whinge.
  • (8) In a cable dated August 2004 titled "Alleged North Korean involvement in missile assembly and underground facility construction in Burma", one of the embassy staff wheedled information from an officer during a visit to Rangoon .
  • (9) It has heard wheedling from France's prime minister: "We will do everything to get [the triple A] back."
  • (10) The fact that he privately bombarded ministers with wheedling letters, contrary to his constitutional position, was an open secret but the government fought to keep the details under wraps.
  • (11) He's nuts – he should be wheedling with me; all a photographer can work with is a gallery of expressions, and after 37 years of no success at all, I don't think he has the facial musculature for smug.
  • (12) He wheedled a few things out of me - that was part of the fun.
  • (13) Kadyrov's response was characteristically wheedling.
  • (14) In one respect, America’s aeronautical myth has to wheedle its way around a flagrant contradiction: Air Force One carries the commander-in-chief, but he is not in command of the plane.
  • (15) Parker, meanwhile, had wheedled $50,000 from investors, and the pair moved to California.
  • (16) On stage, it had added significantly to his air of menace and deceit; he was treating the beaming Mrs W with wheedling charm while another side of his face was twitching with twisted insincerity.
  • (17) We felt that Lego forfeited its responsibility to children by allowing Shell to wheedle its way into playtime and normalise its brand for the next generation.
  • (18) That intervention was almost certainly the result of wheedling by the FA, who seem so much more comfortable with this sort of provenly ineffectual princery than with being held democratically to account.
  • (19) Now, they get their celebrity fix from gossip mags, such as Heat and Reveal, which pull celebrities apart like a gaggle of playground bullies, wheedling out their secrets and laughing at their fashion fails, while for aspirational lifestyle, fashion, and serious features, they will buy Elle, Grazia or Instyle – magazines that appear to respect their emotional maturity and purchasing power.
  • (20) In an attempt to wheedle a confession from the lonely Stagg, she said he would win her heart only if he would admit to sharing her love of Satanism and child murder.

Wheeled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wheel
  • (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (2) From the standpoint of breakeven facts and resource efficiency the minicenter and clinic-on-wheels were similar and superior to the other two.
  • (3) Among the improved patients, eight became ambulatory and independent in activities of daily living (ADL), eight became independent from a wheel-chair level, and eight returned home or to the community.
  • (4) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
  • (5) The chicks were individually placed in running wheels for 2 x 1 hr, 24 hr before testing.
  • (6) A total of 60 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned at 6 weeks of age to a sedentary control group (n = 22) or to a group with unlimited access to a running wheel (n = 38).
  • (7) The relatively conservative behavior of these mice in selecting between multiple sources of food and water and different types of activity wheels suggests the need for careful experimental design in free-choice studies with inexperienced animals.
  • (8) Of course, if the wheels are falling off the regime, people will try to find a way out, but it is much more likely that they will simply defect, rather than try to pull off a coup and then negotiate a deal for the regime.
  • (9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
  • (10) Blinded female reats were placed in running-wheel cages to monitor the phase of their activity cycle.
  • (11) Cells have been injected iontophoretically with the calcium sensitive metallochromic dye arsenazo III and changes in differential absorbance have been measured using a spinning wheel microspectrophotometer.
  • (12) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
  • (13) The 2008 financial crisis saw countries adopt extreme measures to keep the economic wheels turning, for example by reducing interest rates to record lows , pumping billions into the system through quantitative easing in the US, Japan, the UK and the euro-area, and striking trade deals to open markets further.
  • (14) The causes of barotrauma were: 1) Undue length of the tube pressed by machine's wheel which connect the ventilator to the anesthesia machine.
  • (15) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.
  • (16) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
  • (17) Last month, neighbours watched in silence as her bloodstained body was wheeled out of the front door of the small house she shared with her two daughters on the outskirts of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
  • (18) This tends to push buyers behind the wheel of a diesel, which usually produces less CO2 than an equivalent petrol.
  • (19) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
  • (20) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.

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