pry bar

NOUN
  1. a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
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How To Use pry bar In A Sentence

  • It can, however, be used as a pry bar to keep one from obsession if wielded in a certain way.
  • Chipping out enough so he can get a bite with the pry bar, he uses the hammer's head as a fulcrum, then leans in with his weight.
  • After returning from his job as a writer for the American Civil Liberties Union one evening this spring, William Potter grabbed an iron pry bar and, with a few whacks, demolished the kitchen of his Petworth rowhouse.
  • Remove the shoe moldings, trim pieces, door thresholds, and floor grates carefully, using a pry bar and a scrap of wood for a leverage wedge so as not to mar the baseboard.
  • I know you aren't supposed to use any kind of pry bar etc (not that it would fit anyway). NASIOC
  • I noticed it when I realized I was using my mattock as a pry bar, not for rocks, as was intended, but for myself.
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