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Example sentences for: lever

How can you use “lever” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Day Lewis, in “How Poetry Began” (1944), wrote “To find this out, we'll have to jump into a Time Machine, put its gear lever into reverse, and race backwards through many thousands of years into prehistoric time.”
[ 1 ] assessed laterality using a left/right lever choice on a continuous reinforcement schedule.
And if next November the candidates are George Bush, Al Gore, and Jesse Ventura, it isn't inconceivable that I would pull the lever for Ventura.
The LAT says that the speech was in its own way the ultimate impeachment defense: revealing Clinton to be a president focused on the issues people really care about, and hence might help him maintain the strong poll ratings that may be his ultimate lever with the senators sitting in judgment of him.
The government's main economic lever, the money supply, is the province of the autonomous Federal Reserve Board.