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"Lever" in a Sentence (27 examples)
Press down on the lever.
The screw, the lever, the wedge, the pulley, etc. are called simple machines.
They lifted the rock by means of a lever.
You can adjust the seat height by moving the adjustment lever up.
Leverage is to debt as lever is to what?
Tom pulled a lever.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
There are torches that do not need batteries. Some are charged by shaking them, some by cranking a handle and others by repeatedly pressing a lever.
Please push up the lever.
Tom put two slices of bread into the toaster and pushed down on the lever.
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Retractable steps and handrails are provided on each side of the cars. The steps, which are under the control of the guard, are operated by hand levers in the entrance vestibule.
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.
My lord, I brained him with a lever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’
With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.
Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.
The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.
He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.
Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.
"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,
Now therfore take my life from me / for I had leuer dye then liue.
The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.
For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: […]
For leuer had I die, then ſee his deadly face.
We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.
Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.
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