How to Use leverage in a Sentence

leverage

1 of 2 noun
Definition of leveragenext
Synonyms for leveragenext
  • 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
  • Putin pretends to be crazy in order to scare us and to gain leverage.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
  • For the first time in a long while, workers have some leverage to push for more.
    — Patricia Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
  • Here’s a look at some of the key points of U.S. leverage.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But Lukashenko no longer has the leverage to play the East against the West.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • And too much of that leverage also exists in too few hands.
    — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Our job now is to sustain it, leverage it, and build on it.
    — Jill Filipovic, Marie Claire, 7 Nov. 2018
  • And that really put more leverage on the part of workers.
    — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Arizona State didn't seemed to be a team with a lot of leverage.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • That sort of leverage seems likely to dissipate, thanks to the new find.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Without him, the offense stalled on those high-leverage plays.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • There’s even voice tech, voice search, Alexa and smart homes to leverage.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
  • Steinberg said bonds are often used as leverage to get people to plead guilty to charges.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Still, Logan gets to keep it as a gruesome piece of leverage over his son.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Still, there is a danger that Adani may have secret sources of leverage.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023
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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
  • 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
  • So what needs to be done to help leverage cross-border telemedicine?
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 1 Oct. 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
  • So these grants are leveraged by the companies to invest in their artists.
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The way the ski industry is leveraging its client base will be a template for many.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 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 commodities unit leveraged that to drum up more business.
    — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That is, people who leverage their celebrity to sell things.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • But Allred learned to leverage the power of media decades ago.
    — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
  • As in the case of the Osage Tribe, some have been able to leverage resources on their land.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • That’s a quandary for the mayor, because the bonds would be leveraged through a new property tax.
    — David Smiley, miamiherald, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The online retail giant clearly leverages many tools to keep the taxman at bay.
    — Salvador Rizzo, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 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
  • India could leverage this and even play a mediator in the crisis.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • She was also drawn by a chance to leverage her holiday work into a career.
    — NBC News, 27 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • It is said that many great fortunes in China are highly leveraged.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 25 May 2018
  • Every big in today’s game needs a way to leverage their size against smaller players.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019

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