Sentences with lever
lev·er
L l - Push the tiny lever on the lock. [+ on]
- Neighbours eventually levered open the door with a crowbar. [VERB noun with adjective]
- Laurie LEVER started riding when he was 10 years old because it seemed a good idea at the time.
- Then the hangman leapt back and hit the lever and he dropped immediately out of sight.
- Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
- A crowbar is an example of a lever because it helps to lift heavy objects.The hand brake is usually applied by a lever at the side of the driver's seat.A lever is a rigid bar pivoted around a fulcrum, used to transfer a force to a load and usually to provide a mechanical advantage.
- A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
- With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
- "The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can," said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,