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How to use lever in a sentence

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It has lever tumblers that require a key with a bit, or projecting part, of proper depth and position.
She had the crowbar in both hands and was trying to lever apart a wide slat at the point where it was joined to the bottom of the crate.
However, a clever lever mechanism collapses its box when the hood is closed, giving reasonable luggage space.
A rear end of the lever is externally accessible to allow manipulation by the user.
He shifted the lever into neutral and released the hand brake, then cranked the steering wheel as far to the right as he could.
Winchester has reintroduced the tang safety on its lever actions this year, replacing the unpopular cross-bolt safety.
The gear lever was at his right hand, the brake in the throttle pedal's usual place.
Is the handle a chrome lever or a reproduction brass handle with a hand-engraved escutcheon?
On the front derailleur shifter, the indexing cog appears to be exposed by design underneath the brake lever handle.
The tunnel is fitted with a polished-aluminum emergency brake handle, manual shift lever and climate controls.
Just press the lever and frost glasses for mixed drinks, for soft drinks, for wine glasses or dessert glasses.
Ian shifted the gear lever into reverse, his left foot trembling, ready to release the clutch at the first opportunity.
It flows into a center console that places the requisite cupholders next to the new floor-mounted shift lever.
An available six-speed automatic transmission can be manually controlled by the shift lever and by steering wheel-mounted paddles.
The steering wheel was correct, relative to the pedals and the auto shift lever and the seat.
The unit suits both lever and gate valve which covers all combinations available.
The plastic dash and centre console, where the gear lever was mounted, looked sturdy and practical.
Where there is a separate carrier for the pallets, as in the lever escapement, this can be considered as part of the controller.
The boat slows, stops, and if the lever isn't pushed into neutral, she'll gather way astern.
Suppose a student cannot correctly state the distinction between operant and respondent behavior but can shape the lever press.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The float should be so arranged that it is adjustable with reference to the lever that it contacts with.
The centaurian jerked a lever home a fraction of a second before Dixon's smashing ax forever ended his activities.
A simple lever, fulcrumed on a bar held by the tool post, is drilled and tapped in the end to receive the screw.
The L lever carries a pawl which operates a ratchet wheel, placed on the handle end of the slide rest cross feed screw.
A touch on that lever, tweeny, and in a few moments bonfires would be blazing all round the shore.
He swung over to the panel, hooked his foot under the handgrip and grasped the lever inset in the surface.
The chauffeur yanked the gasolene lever over the rachet, opening the throttle wider, and the car shot forward at increased speed.
After a period of argument and persuasion, that young man took a slice bar and pounded at the lever of the whistle.
He pulled out his watch and then, leaning over to the wall, he snapped over something like the stunted lever of a signal box.
All valves in cylinder head, actuated by a single push and pull lever worked by a single cam.
He threw the lever over as far as it would go and advanced the spark lever to the end of the rachet.
What I hope to accomplish, explained Mr. Morse, is to construct a combined steerer and balancer on one lever.
By way of reply Mr. Barr went to the starboard wall of the cabin and pulled a lever connecting with a worm gear.
As he yanked the lever savagely, the popping from up the road sounding like the rapid discharge of a Gatling gun.
The bar or lever that is fixed to the top of the rudder-post is called a tiller.
The crew chief glanced over the man's shoulder, reached out to put his hand on a polished lever, and pressed.
When a business man once gets his mind set, not even an Archimedean lever could stir it.
The lever is for straightening the plane iron, and the screw s is for adjusting the depth of the cut.
He worked at the lever and touched the 202 valve, and then leaped from his post to the roadbed.
On new wire, when I fix my compensator, I usually have an adjusting screw on the lead to lever.
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