Crowbar is an English word with synonyms like pry or lever. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Crowbar meaning
- An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
- An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
- A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
Using Crowbar
- The main meaning on this page is: An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart. | An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage. | A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
- Useful related words include: wrecking bar, pry, pry bar, lever.
- In the example corpus, crowbar often appears in combinations such as: with crowbar, crowbar to, crowbar and.
Context around Crowbar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crowbar
- In this selection, "crowbar" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sledgehammer, cutter, hit, grinder and led stand out and add context to how "crowbar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sledgehammer crowbar and a and and a crowbar. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crowbar" sits close to words such as adolphus, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crowbar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crowbar hit a series of forearms in the corner and repeatedly stomped him. (13 words)
And in this issue, we discover that crowbar can pry open the multiverse itself. (14 words)
When it was recovered by police it was found to contain a television and a crowbar. (16 words)
A man sustained an injury to his head from what police believe to be a strike with a crowbar, while a man at the scene was also reportedly seen with a gun. (32 words)
Looters targeting homes on NSW's fire-ravaged South Coast will face the "full force of the law", authorities warn, after police charged people for trespassing and carrying tools including a crowbar. (32 words)
It was at this point Smith produced a crowbar from his boot and started striking the driver’s door with it, causing £8,103.25, of damage to the lorry. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Crowbar hit a series of forearms in the corner and repeatedly stomped him.
The band will play a headline show at Sydney’s Crowbar on Thursday, 15th June before another show at the Triffid in Brisbane the following evening.
The Cooper brothers were identified as the men in the SUV who caused damage to the Vauxhall using a crowbar and baseball bat.
The court heard that Hogg and Dixon had climbed on to the roof, but were also equipped with a sledgehammer, crowbar and a drill.
THE sycophantic bouquet even got a mention at PMQs, where Rishi Sunak tried to crowbar it into a dig at SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.
The widow’s suit alleges Taranto had handed a cane or crowbar to another man, who used it to beat Officer Smith.
While progressing through the corridor between RAM and the GPU Art Gallery, players will need to interact with a crowbar to roll a large boulder down a ramp.
Wise would teach him a new phrase each week and Vialli would endeavour to crowbar this latest nugget into media interviews.
A Christmas crook is on the run after using a crowbar to break into a Melbourne post office to steal dozens of parcels.
A man sustained an injury to his head from what police believe to be a strike with a crowbar, while a man at the scene was also reportedly seen with a gun.
First they use a crowbar to drop the driver's window then one scrambles inside to start the engine, presumably with a keyless electronic gizmo, and drive off.
Five males were found inside the bakkie with house breaking implements, including grinders, an electric extension, a bolt cutter, zinc cutter, crowbar, grinder blades and pliers.
It was at this point Smith produced a crowbar from his boot and started striking the driver’s door with it, causing £8,103.25, of damage to the lorry.
Lisa is shocked to discover from Yasmeen that she threw Mason out because he had a crowbar.
When it was recovered by police it was found to contain a television and a crowbar.
A fight between three women, one of which was struck in the head with a crowbar, led to two arrests and indictments.
And in this issue, we discover that crowbar can pry open the multiverse itself.
An elderly man was attacked by burglars with a crowbar after disturbing them in his own home.
Looters targeting homes on NSW's fire-ravaged South Coast will face the "full force of the law", authorities warn, after police charged people for trespassing and carrying tools including a crowbar.
Police later determined she had been beaten to death with a crowbar days earlier after arguing with her son.
Common combinations with crowbar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- with crowbar 11×
- crowbar to 7×
- crowbar and 5×
- the crowbar 4×
- using crowbar 2×
- to crowbar 2×
- or crowbar 2×
- had crowbar 2×
- and crowbar 2×
- crowbar after 2×