How to Use cartwheel in a Sentence

cartwheel

1 of 2 noun
  • The children turned cartwheels and somersaults on the grass.
  • One stepped away and did cartwheels.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • Chiki, you good with the cartwheel?
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • Some girls did cartwheels on the grass while a couple of people danced.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
  • By breaking out a cartwheel right on the runway.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • There have been cartwheels and stomp troupes and rollerblading barbie dolls.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Kharsya set the device on the curb and threw herself into a cartwheel.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The cartwheel video offers a clear message.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
  • My daughter is doing cartwheels in the front lawn this weekend.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Simpson started the dance with the famous cartwheel from the movie.
    — Brian Gosset, star-telegram, 21 Apr. 2018
  • In a final chain sequence, each one’s steps include a cartwheel.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 30 June 2017
  • Selma Blair stunned the audience with a cartwheel and a split mid dance!
    — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • If all that matters is the result, then the Ducks are doing cartwheels.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Rooms big enough to do cartwheels, bathrooms with soaking tubs, and a swanky piano bar add to its appeal.
    — Elise Craig, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Through the same processes, Atlas was taught to crawl, do cartwheels.
    — Marc Lieberman, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This nasty habit and the overall collapse of hygiene have local rats doing cartwheels.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The movement is nearly as surprising as the verbal cartwheels — no easy feat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Instead, the young, webbed avenger kept limber by performing headstands and flips and cartwheels on the grass.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2026
  • The number ends with Bobbie doing a cartwheel into the splits on the edge of the jury box.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 June 2023
  • Avoiding the work, and a goodbye to the river, the kids and one of the guides did cannonballs and cartwheels off the front of a raft.
    — Jim Buchta, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2017
  • Get a gang of your unfussiest eaters together, and take a vote on what dish got your tastebuds doing cartwheels.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But Brown gracefully twists in a cartwheel and then rounds into a backflip — a perfect copy of the kid.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • Ava had mastered a cartwheel days before the shooting but no longer talked about becoming a cheerleader.
    — John Woodrow Cox, courant.com, 9 June 2017
  • How nice to see somebody turning cartwheels and doing anything to make an audience happy.
    — Scott Huver, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • By age 4, when most preschoolers are able to perform a wobbly cartwheel at best, Ohashi had mastered a back handspring.
    — Marie Claire, 19 Apr. 2019
  • Or, for anyone who’s ever spoken to him, essentially a cartwheel.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Back in the title picture, Zhang didn’t disappoint and capped the victory with a cartwheel.
    — Dan Gelston, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Kids were often outside on bikes and scooters and roller skates, playing tag or touch football, turning cartwheels on the lawns, being noisy.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • These typically include stunts such as cartwheels and aerials, as well as step dancing both inside and outside of the ropes.
    — Tyra McClung, courant.com, 15 June 2019
  • The victory secured, Murray did not have the energy for cartwheels or even a leaping fist pump.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016

cartwheel

2 of 2 verb
  • The car hit the pole and then cartwheeled across the road.
  • She cartwheeled across the floor.
  • Vukovich's car wound up cartwheeling outside an outer wall and on fire.
    — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
  • First one grouse, a puff of exploded feathers, and the dead bird cartwheeled to earth.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Just as the man was about to seize them, Zdarsky let go, the papers cartwheeling across the grass in the stiff breeze.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Some people can do a full back bend, whereas others prefer to cartwheel out.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The Faire is science, dressed up as carnival and art and cartwheeling.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • The Lincoln Park player has even promised to learn how to cartwheel by the first game.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There are spiders that cartwheel across the desert, and some salamanders back-flip down boulders.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Do your own three-legged races, toss-your-shoe contests and cartwheel competitions.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2020
  • Her mind cartwheeled, imagining a sibling for her daughter, a small baby to hold, even for a little while.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Adults sat in lawn chairs or on blankets while kids darted around the grass, cartwheeling, throwing frisbees and laughing.
    — Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2019
  • So upon landing the gear folded and the right wing dropped, causing Furias to cartwheel.
    — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Hield cartwheeled onto center court in front of thousands of fans after being introduced.
    — Nick Friedell, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But there’s also something keeping the premise from cartwheeling into transcendence.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Now, researchers have discovered a species that can actually cartwheel.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
  • London is a huge, ungainly beast whose cartwheeling urban life is in cranky, irrational disarray.
    — Bruce Sterling, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The red, white and blue bunting decorating ballparks, the echoing crack of a bat, bags of peanuts cartwheeling from vendor’s hands, pastoral fields of emerald green.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • At this year’s event in April, shirtless male acrobats cartwheeled and stood on each other’s shoulders while financiers sipped cocktails and mingled.
    — Kirsten Grind, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The Austrian great won that race three days after walking away unhurt from a spectacular cartwheeling crash in downhill.
    — Graham Dunbar, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In Schumann’s outpourings Lang heard giddy playfulness, and set her men cartwheeling and clapping.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Built to Spill plays cartwheeling, daydreaming tunes that float above it all, while Afghan Whigs specializes in darker dirges from down below.
    — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Learning how to ride a bike without training wheels, rollerblading, and cartwheeling are perfect opportunities for kids to practice being brave.
    — Jenna Autuori-Dedic, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Also, Dorelus noted, drivers trying to dodge cartwheeling ice sheets can cause accidents by suddenly veering.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • As Juno neared Jupiter, the spinning spacecraft started cartwheeling five times per minute, which helped stabilize it during orbit insertion.
    — National Geographic, 1 July 2016
  • Others ran to center field to cartwheel or do backflips — surprising energy after a game that lasted 4 hours, 11 minutes.
    — Travis Johnson, ajc, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The ensuing impact upon the water caused the aircraft to cartwheel and severely damage the front cockpit, making escape for Capt.
    — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The best room The Presidential Suite takes up the majority of the 60th floor and has a living room large enough to cartwheel through.
    — Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 29 May 2023
  • As the crowd erupted in cheers, Lautner cartwheeled and back-flipped (a nod to their scene in 2010’s Valentine’s Day) and wrapped Swift in a big hug.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 July 2023
  • According to the report, the witness said the plane climbed up to 100 feet before descending and cartwheeling onto the water upside down with seven people on board.
    — baltimoresun.com, 1 Aug. 2019

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