crowbar

“There was nothing else—not even a crowbar or a pickax—to break through the concrete.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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

By now, Zhao’s at it again with the crowbar, jimmying our hearts open for one last tearjerk.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

However, McCullum said England will not "crowbar" Bethell into the team.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

He took his buckets and jars and his crowbar and put his sandwiches in one pocket and his thermos bottle in another pocket and he went down the cliff to the tidal flat.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

In the port of La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit cities, the BBC saw people using crowbars, mallets and pickaxes to try to dig out loved ones and neighbours.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

They had all the equipment at the ready: crowbars, shovels, and mallets.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 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

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

There seemed no way of doing this ex- cept with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

"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

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

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 Rudyard Kipling

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)