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Example sentences for "levered"

Lexicographically close words:
levels; leven; lever; leverage; levere; leveret; leverets; levers; leves; leveth
  1. She pushed her plate aside, poured a cup of coffee, and levered a cigarette from the Readilit, puffing at it with the relish of the morning's first smoke.

  2. Sitting down again at the breakfast table with her father, Claire levered another cigarette out of the Readilit and puffed at it with exaggeratedly bored slowness.

  3. Sandy and Neville, taking a pull at the end, levered the stone high enough for Joe, who had the other bar ready to insert between the raised end and the floor stone.

  4. He had caught the index finger of the other blackened hand and levered it savagely backward, backward until the bone broke and it hung limp on the tortured tendon.

  5. But he was conscious of no spirit of elation as he stepped through the gate and passed on into that glass-fronted cage where Pyott, the managing editor, sat like a switchman in his many-levered tower.

  6. He levered himself laboriously to his feet, and Si'Wren ducked under his shoulder to prop him up.

  7. A huge half-breed giant fully seven feet tall thrust him through with a spear point and casually levered the honed steel blade out of the boy's body again as he marched past without even so much as breaking his stride.

  8. A curved incision with its convexity backward is made over the medial side of the tibia, exposing the fragments, which are then levered into position and if necessary plated or otherwise fixed according to circumstances.

  9. Reduction is to be effected by flexing and abducting the metacarpal while the phalanx is hyper-extended and pushed down towards the joint and levered over the head of the metacarpal.

  10. The bones can usually be levered into position with the aid of a pair of dressing forceps passed into the nostrils, the blades being protected with rubber tubing.

  11. With the last of his strength he levered himself over and lay on his back, staring up at the thing that stood over him, with the darkness of exhaustion filming his eyes.

  12. Harder to kill than I thought," Jason grunted as he levered himself painfully up onto one elbow and took a good look at this world where his spaceship sabotage had landed them.

  13. Ruthven levered himself out of his chair, his solid bulk stretching his uniform coveralls.

  14. Travis drew a deep breath which was almost a sob, levered himself up on one elbow to stare intently down into the enemy camp.

  15. I don't care," Krishna said petulantly, and levered himself to his feet.

  16. As he levered himself up the cabin had a nasty tendency to move slowly to the right as if he were a pivot on which it swung, and he had all the sensations of being in free fall though the Queen was still firmly planeted.

  17. They quoted in their turn the information they had levered out of the Company men--that Traders had their code and that once pay had been given in advance the contract must be fulfilled.

  18. He took out the heavy automatic and levered a shell into the firing chamber.

  19. Thorsen took his rifle out of the saddle boot, levered a shell into the chamber and rested it across the saddle in front of him.

  20. He listened a minute, then he levered the bolts back, stepped into the vault-room, closed the door and shot the mechanical bolts.

  21. He levered the bolts into place and spun the expensive combination lock.

  22. Pardon me," he said, and levered himself upright.

  23. This done he took the iron crow, and inserting it beneath a loose flat stone levered it up.

  24. This he inserted in the hole and they both levered away at it.

  25. He broke the hasp of the door, and levered up the trap, splintering it badly and breaking both hinges in the process, while Chamu watched him, growing green with fear.

  26. Then, summoning Tom's aid, he levered and shoved into place on top of it the heavy iron safe in which he kept his specimens and money.

  27. Before this time, when it was very cold, we lighted the primus in the morning while we were still in our bags: and in the evening we kept it going until we were just getting or had got the mouths of our bags levered open.

  28. West Indian negro shanties are movable wooden huts, and when a family wishes to change its venue it does so in the following manner: The shanty is levered up on to a low platform on wheels, to which two very long ropes are attached.

  29. The hut is then levered off the platform on to terra firma and fixed in its required position.

  30. Presently we emerged on a level ledge of rock, from a square hole in the midst of which a great slab had been levered away with the aid of a pole that lay beside it.

  31. Slowly it would be levered up, and packings or wedges of wood or stone inserted.

  32. In this way, by alternately raising and wedging first one side and then the other, the impost could have been brought, in time, level with the summit of its upright, and levered over on to the tenons.


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