How to Use leverage in a Sentence

leverage

1 of 2 noun

• I used the leverage of the bar and a wooden block to pry the rock out of the hole.
• The player's popularity has given him a great deal of leverage with the owners of the team.
• The union's size gave it leverage in the labor contract negotiations.
• The low-rise bars fell right to hand and give a lot of leverage.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• That gave Democrats more leverage in the months to come.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Races ahead of plays and voids his leverage and run fits at times.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The team did not trust him in high-leverage spots in the postseason.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Not exactly the kind of leverage to pry away a bevy of top prospects.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2017
• But the hostages are also perhaps the last leverage these men hold.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• The longer this thing drags on, the more leverage the Texans have.
  — Brian T. Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
• Here’s a look at some of the key points of U.S. leverage.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• For the first time in a long while, workers have some leverage to push for more.
  — Patricia Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• Putin pretends to be crazy in order to scare us and to gain leverage.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
• But Lukashenko no longer has the leverage to play the East against the West.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Our job now is to sustain it, leverage it, and build on it.
  — Jill Filipovic, Marie Claire, 7 Nov. 2018
• And too much of that leverage also exists in too few hands.
  — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Arizona State didn't seemed to be a team with a lot of leverage.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• And that really put more leverage on the part of workers.
  — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
• That sort of leverage seems likely to dissipate, thanks to the new find.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• Without him, the offense stalled on those high-leverage plays.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• There’s even voice tech, voice search, Alexa and smart homes to leverage.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
• But the pandemic removed any leverage unions had to walk out.
  — Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• Chase had to expand his tool box and learn how to use his speed and his technique to get leverage in those matchups.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2021
• Many bosses have longed for some leverage to prod more workers back to the office.
  — Matthew Boyle, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
• This season, the outfielder has come up time and again in high leverage spots.
  — Mike Mavredakis, courant.com, 12 July 2021
• That gives the league’s best athletes tremendous leverage.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Her work on the website has helped her leverage the slur for her own benefit.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 16 Mar. 2020
• Still, Logan gets to keep it as a gruesome piece of leverage over his son.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
• Steinberg said bonds are often used as leverage to get people to plead guilty to charges.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2022
• Tsui simply has so much stuff to cleverly dole out and leverage.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2020

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leverage

2 of 2 verb

• The company wants to leverage its brands more effectively.
• The goal is to leverage the power of the Black woman’s vote.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• So what needs to be done to help leverage cross-border telemedicine?
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
• But that might not be the best way to leverage the value of that phone and help offset the cost of a new one.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
• That is to say, these secrets could be leveraged against him.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Feb. 2018
• And of course, the couple have leveraged their signature humor in many of the shots.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
• But having that roadmap that my dad kind of laid out for me, and being able to leverage that.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 June 2022
• So these grants are leveraged by the companies to invest in their artists.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
• Such a group would be able to leverage its votes as a bloc, giving it greater power.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2020
• One set of claims would leverage Pursglove’s rights as a wife.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2016
• The way the ski industry is leveraging its client base will be a template for many.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• That is, people who leverage their celebrity to sell things.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• The commodities unit leveraged that to drum up more business.
  — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
• As in the case of the Osage Tribe, some have been able to leverage resources on their land.
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• That’s a quandary for the mayor, because the bonds would be leveraged through a new property tax.
  — David Smiley, miamiherald, 6 Oct. 2017
• But Allred learned to leverage the power of media decades ago.
  — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• Tsui simply has so much stuff to cleverly dole out and leverage.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2020
• Debbie leverages her star power in the ring into a producer role on the show.
  — Bonnie Stiernberg, Glamour, 6 July 2018
• The city could leverage that money to issue debt that would generate more proceeds on the front end.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• The online retail giant clearly leverages many tools to keep the taxman at bay.
  — Salvador Rizzo, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Once a prospect has been drawn into the top of the sales funnel, there are some great ways to leverage video to tempt them to venture further in.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• But the Fed did not say Wells Fargo was over-leveraged.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
• India could leverage this and even play a mediator in the crisis.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 May 2021
• Of course, the Fold can leverage its hinge to act as its own tabletop tripod just as well as the Flip can.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
• Paige, after her moment, is trying to leverage it for more.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• The two can leverage their scale in buying supplies cheaper, saving each a lot of money.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2021
• Some of my friends leveraged their creative skills by selling sketches and photos.
  — Jim Ross, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• Key to your success will also be your ability to leverage your network to open doors.
  — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2019
• Every big in today’s game needs a way to leverage their size against smaller players.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The main idea is to leverage private-sector banks and private capital for green projects.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 9 June 2021

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