Sentence examples for crowbar back from inspiring English sources

Was it a "I'm not doin' it, YOU do it" Abbott and Costello routine where two knuckleheads pass a crowbar back and forth until it drops on one of their feet?

In Romm's hands, anger becomes an instrument for pursuing truth, an extremely effective crowbar with which to pry back nicety and expose "something unfettered, something darker".

If you're not lucky enough to get your crowbar round the back of a Banksy, the only way to make proper money out of a youth club is to bulldoze it and put up a Costa or an apartment block.

To illustrate: you may not pepper your front yard with signs reading "Guarded by Charlton Heston" (if he is not actually in your house keeping and bearing arms), but if you are awakened in the night by a crowbar prying open your back door, you may bark like Charlton Heston to frighten off the intruder.

Chris Khory, a maintenance worker at the condo, then used a crowbar to smash the back window of Hansen's car, causing Hansen to flee the scene on foot.

"They tried to tear down the shutters, and at first the police kicked them out, but they came back with crowbars, and this time the police just stood and watched them.

He drew back with a crowbar and gave it a round of good whacks.

Until, on the evening of 19 December 1983, burglars entered the building and hacked through the wooden back of the cabinet with a crowbar.

In any case, in 1981 the director Frank Perry made the sensationally vindictive movie of the same title in which Faye Dunaway, her career as a star fading, grabbed at a chance for glory, or at least notoriety, by launching herself into a spangled caricature of Crawford — rigidly tensed neck and back, painted eyebrows like Gothic arches, crowbar voice.

But there was nothing ambiguous about the message delivered Sunday night when two white men picked up two laborers, took them to a secluded, abandoned factory in Shirley and then hit one in the back of the head with a crowbar and slashed the other's neck and wrists with a knife.

Cut through any existing caulk with a utility knife and use a crowbar to pry the tub slightly away from the back wall.