Sentence examples for a fifth wheel from inspiring English sources

To Einstein the ether was a fifth wheel, Dr. Galison pointed out.

My middle name is Luke, stored like a fifth wheel, to be brought out in case the burden of unusualness caused a breakdown.

A device called a fifth wheel is used to connect a truck tractor to a semitrailer and to permit articulation between the units.

Another bonus these tours offer, operators and travelers say, is the absence of couples and families, who can make singles feel like a fifth wheel.

As a vehicle for storytelling in film, the 3-D illusion of depth is neither here nor there: a fifth wheel.

The Romney campaign seems to be banking on this fatigue and counting on The Fourth Estate being reduced to little more than a fifth wheel in the political zeitgeist.

For decades, motorcyclists have been attaching sidecars to their bikes, essentially one-wheeled buggies that provide a third wheel and the ability to carry up to two passengers.

SAVE for the addition of a third wheel, the Trikke looks an awful lot like the two-wheeled Razor scooter, the must-have toy of 2000.

Then a second wheel failed.

I feel like a third wheel.

John Harrison is a bit of a third wheel.