How to Use lever in a Sentence

lever

1 of 2 noun
  • They used their money as a lever to gain political power.
  • Her legs serve her well as levers.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • For wine drinkers, the lever is on the shelf.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The Dodgers see some levers to pull.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • Both front and rear brakes have great feel on the levers, too.
    — New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And to pull so many of the right levers along the way, too?
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Find that lever and pull it harder.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But in coding, that’s rarely the right lever.
    — Terry Goertz, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • All 16 notes are formed with the mouth, not by holes or levers.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • My right foot pressed into the brake lever was useless.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the Warriors don’t have many levers to pull at this point.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • One of the deputy sheriffs leaned onto the lever.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The shift lever has a walnut handle.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The flow control lever is easy to reach from the tractor’s seat.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
  • Just press the foot lever at the base and tilt the entire tent forward.
    — Erica Zazo, Outside, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The levers are thinner than that suggests.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Chignoli sees bundling as a key lever.
    — Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And the sliding lock lever along the back end of the neck is quite secure.
    — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Three strategic levers will help fast-track their journey.
    — Dave McCann, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Sleep is the most powerful lever.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • All buttons can be pushed and levers pulled, so feel free the let the kids roam around at will.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2026
  • Then place the opener over the cork with the handle up, and push the lever down.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • When one of those levers is constrained, the others have to do more of the work.
    — Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There is a single-lever control.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Wipe down handles, levers, and dials.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
  • First, a small lever with a suction cup at the end of it picks up the paper bowl.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Google Cloud is a direct lever for outsized growth.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Most choose not to make it because holding the lever feels like power.
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The brake cables are pulled with an electric motor rather than a hand lever.
    — Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
  • As scale changes, so do the levers that create real value.
    — Samuel Mueller, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026

lever

2 of 2 verb
  • He levered the rock out of the hole.
  • In the dot-com era, telecoms levered up to lay fiber fast.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Not when there is fear to be exploited, cracks to lever into chasms.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 29 Jan. 2020
  • What else is new when you’re levered to China and charge more than anyone else?
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • If the potatoes are hard to pull, use the shovel to carefully lever them out of the soil.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • If your plants are hard to pull, insert your shovel beneath the roots and use it to lever the roots out of the soil.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The choice of experts tells us which levers the company hopes to pull in pursuit of a four-minute mile.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 12 June 2025
  • Also undo the lift-rod assembly, all the parts that lever the stopper up and down.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Sep. 2020
  • That means the hats must have been levered upward and then tilted down onto the head of the statue.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
  • And those tails, on both sides, are levered bets on Musk succeeding or failing.
    — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • If the old washer is hard to remove, try levering it off with a screwdriver.
    — The Editors Of House Beautiful, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2015
  • Use the plastic wrap overhang to lever the terrine out of the pan before flipping it over for serving.
    — Cathy Barrow, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2017
  • All would reduce the incentive and ability to lever up the housing stock.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Those are excellent businesses to be levered to.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The next morning, a dentist levered my teeth back into place with a tongue depressor and cemented them in line.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The dip is a chance to buy the highest quality company levered to interest rates.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Home Depot is the stock in our portfolio most levered to the housing market and mortgage rates.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2026
  • One, who cannot be named for military reasons, painfully levers himself up, to prop himself against the side of his hospital bed.
    — Euan McKirdy and Ivan Watson, CNN, 25 June 2017
  • Everyone could borrow to trade, levering up as much as 10-to-1.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • There’s little value in having advanced locking systems if the door can easily be levered open with a crowbar.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2025
  • In turn, individual people who are highly levered to their stock-market savings will cut back spending in their own lives.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The drop was exacerbated by a large number of traders who were highly levered, borrowing money to increase the size of their bets.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The hat was then turned 90 degrees and levered onto the statue’s head and the ramp was removed, forming wings on either side of the moai that still exist.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2018
  • Once the roots are about as wide as your finger, harvest carrots by pulling them up with a lifting-twisting motion, or use a gardening fork to gently lever long roots free from the soil.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Those fellow Club stocks are more thematic plays, levered to the proliferation of data centers around the world.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 July 2025
  • This is a terrific conglomerate levered to so many different parts of a growing economy.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 27 May 2026
  • As an oil pipeline, not an oil producer, Enbridge is more levered to the volume of the commodities, not the cost, Cramer pointed out.
    — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • If the tactic of threatening no-deal to lever concessions out of the EU has failed, so have attempts to bully MPs.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The Yankees, not wanting to be levered too badly if Cole performed as expected in the first five years of the deal, included a trump card in the agreement.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Some analysts have expressed concern that shrinking revenue, modest earnings growth and a ballooning balance sheet could cause the company to lever up too quickly for the next deal.
    — Kimberly Chin, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019

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