LEVER in a Sentence
Learn LEVER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
39 example sentences for LEVER, such as:
1. Move this lever to change gear.
2. Push the tiny lever on the lock.
3. Pull this lever to open the gate.
4. This lever must serve some ulterior purpose.
5. I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
2. Push the tiny lever on the lock.
3. Pull this lever to open the gate.
4. This lever must serve some ulterior purpose.
5. I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of LEVER
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lever
v. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
n. a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go.
2 Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever.
3 I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
4 I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud.
5 I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
6 Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.
7 One hand on the saddle, the other on the lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again.
8 Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box.
9 Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.
10 I rolled over, and as I did so my hand came against my iron lever.
11 But at last the lever was fitted and pulled over.
12 In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.
13 I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever.
14 Something was at work on the other side of the wall; the prisoner had discovered the danger, and had substituted a lever for a chisel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
15 Dantes went and cut the strongest olive-tree he could find, stripped off its branches, inserted it in the hole, and used it as a lever.
Example Sentence:
1 The worker depressed the lever to start the machine.
2 Move this lever to change gear.
3 The seat tilts forward, when you press this lever.
4 Pull this lever to open the gate.
5 This lever must serve some ulterior purpose.
6 Push the tiny lever on the lock.
7 If you lever up the stone with a stick, you will find lots of insects living beneath it.
8 The threat of sanctions is our most powerful lever for peace.
9 A lever is a bar, with which you can pry or lift greater weights or apply greater force.
10 If we use this stone as a fulcrum and the crowbar as a lever, we may be able to move this boulder.