crowbar

“There was nothing else—not even a crowbar or a pickax—to break through the concrete.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Armed with nothing but a crowbar and shovel in the hills of Somaliland, Ahmed Ibrahim hacks away at rocks where he and fellow miners have already found tonnes of lithium.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

If our hearts weren’t already open, they’ve just been forced ajar with a rusty, emotional crowbar.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

“He wants to put a crowbar in the spokes of our wheels within a nanosecond,” Newsom said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

Or maybe they’ve gone to get a crowbar or my father.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

In the port of La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit cities, the BBC saw people using crowbars, mallets and pickaxes to try to dig out loved ones and neighbours.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

They had all the equipment at the ready: crowbars, shovels, and mallets.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024

During those searches, two blue crowbars, pruning shears and a cutting tool were found in a nearby pond and in the Paar River, the statement said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Footage from the area shows residents digging in brown earth with their bare hands, or using hoes, sticks, crowbars and other tools.

From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2022

They set down, and two policemen got to work on the door with crowbars.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

"Nothing has been crowbarred in and these aren't random fillers, they are wonderful bits that we didn't ever want to get rid of but had to."

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024

This is what happens when a bill is so wide-ranging that almost any domestic policy issue can be crowbarred into it.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023

At one point, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Davy Klaassen and a returned Wayne Rooney were crowbarred into the same team.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2020

Crisp, thin French fries are crowbarred into the taco, gently punctuated with green and red salsa and the bracing freshness of cilantro and onion.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2019

Despite the cold, they sweated profusely at their tasks, stripping off over-garments as they picked and shoveled or crowbarred out the rich gravel.

From A Man to His Mate by Stockton Mulford

Sometimes it goes against Ancelotti’s own preferences but he is not just crowbarring players in any old place to get as many stars in the side as he can.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2014

That mention of the Mad Squirrels, a nickname that is always worth crowbarring in, also allows a quick nod to the quietly impressive progress that is being made in the Czech Republic.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2013

But with our third paragraph well underway and confidence about crowbarring a gag in any sentence now, let's address Barcelona's bid, believed to be worth just over £29m.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2010

“Well, in crowbarring me out of your scheme of life, if you insist on knowing,” were the words that came from the husband sitting so close beside me.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)