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Example sentences for "crowbars"

Lexicographically close words:
crouse; croustades; croutons; crow; crowbar; crowberry; crowd; crowded; crowding; crowds
  1. The spring could not be discovered, but crowbars and hammers being brought, the slab of stone was presently shivered.

  2. Soon a bottle of water was passed in through the loophole, and then three or four ladders being placed in position, the men outside began with crowbars and pickaxes to enlarge the loophole sufficiently for the prisoners to escape.

  3. Having taken a hurried meal, we again yoked the oxen; and going behind with crowbars to assist, we commenced the ascent of the hill.

  4. So fast are they that seven crowbars could not force them open.

  5. The door shut when I went in, and was shut as fast as though seven small bars, and seven large bars, and seven locks were on it; and seven crowbars could not force it open; and I was a prisoner in the cave.

  6. From what I had heard it seemed as if the greater part of the road for several miles was supported on crowbars fixed in the rock, but such is not the case.

  7. Of course if we got one stone out it would be comparatively easy to lift the next, as we could put the crowbars under it.

  8. We shall want a couple of strong iron crowbars for lifting slabs of stone, and of course some fuse for the mines.

  9. If we can do it in no other way, we must drill a line of holes close to each other right across the stone, and we might then break off the piece between them and the crack and get our crowbars under the slab.

  10. The blows of the crowbars redoubled in force, and the bullets that broke through the closed windows dislodged the plaster from the walls; shot followed shot.

  11. The vigilantes, running up, tore through the door chains with crowbars and rushed the building.

  12. Here and there were many sections of the trail which were built on crowbars thrust horizontally into the rock.

  13. A narrow path had been made by laying over these crowbars large slabs of stone not particularly firm when you trod over them.

  14. The burro's pack displayed crowbars and shovels and picks and gold pans and camp equipage; and to Charley's mind the little procession looked very business-like.

  15. His master told him to get a couple of crowbars and axes and to come along.

  16. The two servants got out the axes and crowbars and, aided by their master, attacked the heavy iron-bound door of the disused water-mill.

  17. Suppose then that the rate from Pittsburgh to New York for both crowbars and nails is fifty cents a hundred, but that the rate from Williamsport to New York was but 38 cents.

  18. Suppose that both nails and crowbars are made in Pittsburgh and only nails are made at Williamsport.

  19. If we had only had Amphion's lyre; but we had not even a fiddle, only crowbars and gunpowder, and our poor fingers.

  20. The press-room filled--crowbars got to work--while men danced and wildly laughed and exulted in their vandal work.

  21. They had crowbars and they had cans of giant powder, which they had appropriated from a hardware store.

  22. However, this wreck of the jail did not seem to satisfy Blome and his followers, for amid wild yells and huzzahs they set to work with crowbars and soon laid low every stone.

  23. Standing close to where the crowbars were driven into the rock was Quexo, looking the picture of misery, for he was perfectly convinced in his own mind that all his companions had met with disaster.

  24. Cheering up the prisoner with a lusty shout of encouragement, the rescuers proceeded to drive the crowbars into a convenient crevice in the rocks, so that one was about ten feet nearer to the chasm than the other.

  25. There were two crowbars on the hacienda, and working nearly two days, the Indians made a hole between six and seven feet deep, but throughout the wall was solid, and consisted of large stones imbedded in mortar, almost as hard as rock.

  26. Fortunately, we had two crowbars, and the doorway being filled up with earth both inside and out, the men were enabled to stand above the beam, and use the crowbars to advantage.

  27. During this time the assailing party had been busy with crowbars and other instruments, in making several breaches in the yard walls.

  28. We instantly set to work with our crowbars and poles to turn over the broken wagon.

  29. We had, of course, our rifles at our backs and our axes in our belts, and either crowbars or poles in our hands.

  30. Then they went to the pile of big stones and they picked out one of the biggest, and they took their big iron crowbars and put the points of the bars under the stone, to move it.

  31. And the men got it over to the trench, sometimes prying it with their crowbars and sometimes rolling it with their hands, and they set it in its place on top of the small flat stones.

  32. There is no swinging of axes or wielding of crowbars necessary in breaking down an obstruction like this, nowadays.

  33. The axes swung noisily and the crowbars tore at the fortified, iron-clad, "ice box" door inside.

  34. I believe they are pretty hard inside, but our crowbars will soon make a place large enough.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crowbars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.