crowbar
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“There was nothing else—not even a crowbar or a pickax—to break through the concrete.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Whoever is given the job of informing him of that had better take a handful of sedatives and a crowbar to pry the president off the wall of the Oval Office.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 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
With a crowbar I could have reached down and touched them, felt the pulse of the world’s information traveling through my fingertips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
Mr. Lew was using a crowbar to pry nails from a large wooden box while Ma sifted through tufts of straw and drew out enamel plates from one that was already open.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
They had all the equipment at the ready: crowbars, shovels, and mallets.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
The Times wasn’t able to independently confirm if crowbars were used to hit officers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
The Syrian Civil Defence Force - also known as the White Helmets - which operates in opposition-held areas, did what they could with pickaxes and crowbars.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 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
Miss Whitlaw had managed to salvage shovels, pickaxes, and crowbars from the various places for at least a dozen workers.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Springboks skipper Kolisi became the third player to go to the sin-bin - his hit on Savea slipping high - and New Zealand, briefly back level in terms of personnel, crowbarred the game open again.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023
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
In the past, Americana artists were crowbarred into folk or blues categories, or not nominated at all.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2016
Of course, I've crowbarred in some time with my family, but otherwise it's almost a given that I'll be absent at all the BBQs, birthday parties and other special occasions.
From BBC ● May 19, 2016
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)
