How to Use rebar in a Sentence
rebar
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Then burned, tossed in a trunk, tied with rebar to a desert stone.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018
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The statue stood at 43 feet tall and was made of foam and rebar.
—Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
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Get four pieces of steel rebar from Home Depot and wire it to the trunk.
—Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
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It's made with poured-in-place concrete and a handrail of rebar.
—Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
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The rebar will expand enough to put cracks in the concrete.
—Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
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Iron ore and steel rebar are down some 20% from March’s...
—David Hodari, WSJ, 4 May 2017
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Dirt was then packed down to form the trail’s base and tons of steel rebar were used to hold it all in place.
—Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2020
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The screens are anchored into the sand with pieces of bent rebar.
—Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 21 June 2019
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Between the rubble and rebar were the arms of a young child, still wrapped in pale pink sleeves.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 10 July 2017
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So is, of course, concrete with metal in the mix, like rebar.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2021
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The cloth goes over the pipes and is anchored with rebar and landscape staples.
—Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
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Homes turned to mounds of dust and protruding rebar in the villages of Moulay Brahim and Amizmiz.
—Joe Snell, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
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At the time, the windows of the room were secured with rebar to prevent his escape.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2019
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Flags are then removed, rolled around their pole and the rebar is retrieved.
—David Sharos, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
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According to the Detroit Free Press, the statue is made of foam and rebar and weighs about 6,000 pounds.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
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As in much of the rest of the enclave, roadsides are piled with marble slabs, concrete blocks and rebar.
—The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
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A huge concrete wall surrounds the complex; rusted rebar pokes through it, and lizards dart in and out of the cracks.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
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Here, as elsewhere in the house, the floors have been enriched with rebar to prevent cracking.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
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These are hollow steel beams that are filled with concrete and rebar.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
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To make life easy for you and difficult for predators, pound a 4-foot piece of rebar a foot into the ground.
—Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 12 Sep. 2020
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For added strength, the concrete girders are filled with steel cables and rebar.
—Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
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In the game, Joel falls from a balcony and is impaled in the stomach after landing on a rebar.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 27 Feb. 2023
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The posts are anchored in concrete and steel rebar 5 feet below the surface.
—James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
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New floors are piled on top of each other; unfinished homes point rebar at the sky.
—New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
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The office did not give Cruz’s city of residence, but said he had been struck in the head by falling rebar.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
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Issues with concrete and rebar in the attached overhang structure halted the project.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Dec. 2025
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No one can vote out a court when tariffs push up the price of a school Chromebook or a contractor’s rebar.
—Bedassa Tadesse, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
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The first floor is a garage lined with flood vents, and its block walls are reinforced with extra rebar and poured solid with concrete.
—Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
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There had to be some concrete, some wood, some rebar, somewhere.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
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Despite the cemetery’s promise to fix the head solidly on the base, the picture reveals only a tiny piece of rebar that had been keeping it place.
—David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
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