with training wheels
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see with, training wheel.
Example Sentences
- "I mean, even with the luxury of a graphic front end, there's only so much low-level control that you can do on what is basically a canoe with training wheels."
- "You may not be ready to chase down a rabbit and kill it, but you can shuck an oyster, eat it, and get the primal thrill. It's like going native with training wheels."
- "Standup paddling can be described as surfing with training wheels, although you provide the propulsion, not the waves."
- "Also, I introduced him to crayons. Bought the Crayola beginner set—the short, fat, thick ones with training wheels."
- "Alternatively, they can drop their tokens into games of chance—basically, slot machines with training wheels."
- "While a faint whiff of raffishness remained, science fiction could be justified as a specialized form of children's or Young Adult literature—as literature with training wheels on it, something that would teach the kids to be familiar with Science and Technology and to think progressively about The Future (much in the fashion of the famous “World of the Future” dioramas at the 1939 World's Fair) until they were ready to put aside childish things and turn to “real literature” about “the real world"."