crowbar
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It shows Hsiung, in a dark jacket and tie, trying to pry open a metal door with a crowbar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
That little key chain against that big crowbar.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
It also said they caused "further damage" using crowbars - though this is not visible in the bodycam footage it provided.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
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
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
“Search the cargo,” he commanded the soldiers, who laid down their weapons and picked up crowbars.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Argentina, who fought back from 21 points down to beat Scotland last weekend, crowbarred their way back into the contest though.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
"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
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
We began to climb hills, and then we stopped—at night in darkness, while men threw sand under the wheels and crowbarred the track and then "guessed" that we might proceed.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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)
