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.
• 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
• That gave Democrats more leverage in the months to come.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The low-rise bars fell right to hand and give a lot of leverage.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• The longer this thing drags on, the more leverage the Texans have.
  — Brian T. Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
• The team did not trust him in high-leverage spots in the postseason.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Races ahead of plays and voids his leverage and run fits at times.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• There’s even voice tech, voice search, Alexa and smart homes to leverage.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
• What’s the over/under on the date the Bears tip their hand and lose leverage on the No. 1 overall pick?
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Arizona State didn't seemed to be a team with a lot of leverage.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• For the first time in a long while, workers have some leverage to push for more.
  — Patricia Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• Not exactly the kind of leverage to pry away a bevy of top prospects.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2017
• Using the shape of the helix, twist the corkscrew into the cork and then use leverage to pull it out.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
• Our job now is to sustain it, leverage it, and build on it.
  — Jill Filipovic, Marie Claire, 7 Nov. 2018
• Gavin’s got the gun Rafe used to kill Peterkin, which gives him leverage.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• But the hostages are also perhaps the last leverage these men hold.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Putin pretends to be crazy in order to scare us and to gain leverage.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
• And that gives Japan some leverage in the chip industry.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 2 Mar. 2024
• That sort of leverage seems likely to dissipate, thanks to the new find.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• And too much of that leverage also exists in too few hands.
  — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Without him, the offense stalled on those high-leverage plays.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Still, Logan gets to keep it as a gruesome piece of leverage over his son.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
• While all of that gives Grant leverage, the Blazers do sit in a position of strength.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• And that really put more leverage on the part of workers.
  — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
• But the rail companies, which move 40% of the country’s cargo, have a lot of leverage.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 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
• 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
• As in the case of the Osage Tribe, some have been able to leverage resources on their land.
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the Fed did not say Wells Fargo was over-leveraged.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 28 June 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
• One set of claims would leverage Pursglove’s rights as a wife.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2016
• And of course, the couple have leveraged their signature humor in many of the shots.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 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
• 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
• 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
• And so are the drinks, which often leverage more of the local fare in the form of Bols genever and fruited liqueurs.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 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
• So these grants are leveraged by the companies to invest in their artists.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
• But Allred learned to leverage the power of media decades ago.
  — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• That is, people who leverage their celebrity to sell things.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• The way the ski industry is leveraging its client base will be a template for many.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 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
• The commodities unit leveraged that to drum up more business.
  — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
• Even at the expense of his son’s trust, Frank quickly tries to leverage the ghost into fame and fortune.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
• And the concept is more fleshed out, with ooh-and-ah use cases that leverage the device’s uniqueness.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
• Others have tried to honor Santos, and leverage the tragedy for change.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 22 July 2021
• Debbie leverages her star power in the ring into a producer role on the show.
  — Bonnie Stiernberg, Glamour, 6 July 2018
• Tsui simply has so much stuff to cleverly dole out and leverage.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2020
• The city could leverage that money to issue debt that would generate more proceeds on the front end.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• Crushed by debt, Beatrice was later sold off in a huge leveraged buyout.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• The online retail giant clearly leverages many tools to keep the taxman at bay.
  — Salvador Rizzo, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• It is said that many great fortunes in China are highly leveraged.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 25 May 2018
• Paige, after her moment, is trying to leverage it for more.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 6 May 2024