How to Use rebar in a Sentence

rebar

noun

• Then burned, tossed in a trunk, tied with rebar to a desert stone.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018
• Get four pieces of steel rebar from Home Depot and wire it to the trunk.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
• It's made with poured-in-place concrete and a handrail of rebar.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• The rebar will expand enough to put cracks in the concrete.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• Iron ore and steel rebar are down some 20% from March’s...
  — David Hodari, WSJ, 4 May 2017
• 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
• The screens are anchored into the sand with pieces of bent rebar.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 21 June 2019
• Between the rubble and rebar were the arms of a young child, still wrapped in pale pink sleeves.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 10 July 2017
• So is, of course, concrete with metal in the mix, like rebar.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2021
• The cloth goes over the pipes and is anchored with rebar and landscape staples.
  — Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
• Homes turned to mounds of dust and protruding rebar in the villages of Moulay Brahim and Amizmiz.
  — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• At the time, the windows of the room were secured with rebar to prevent his escape.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2019
• Flags are then removed, rolled around their pole and the rebar is retrieved.
  — David Sharos, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• As in much of the rest of the enclave, roadsides are piled with marble slabs, concrete blocks and rebar.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
• 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
• These are hollow steel beams that are filled with concrete and rebar.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
• 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
• For added strength, the concrete girders are filled with steel cables and rebar.
  — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
• 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
• The posts are anchored in concrete and steel rebar 5 feet below the surface.
  — James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
• New floors are piled on top of each other; unfinished homes point rebar at the sky.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The boy’s small hand waved through the wreckage as a man out walking his dog hurried to the site, climbed through a pile of glass and rebar and promised to get help right away.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
• The wall along the back side of the graveyard was made of limestone but had been reinforced with steel rebar, some of which was hollow.
  — Colum McCann, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• They're made of a mish mash of whatever's at hand—boulders, trees, rebar.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• Consider the rebar jutting from the backs of his Socrates Sculpture Park goats.
  — Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2017
• The shots caused Chavez to fall to the ground, but Chavez got back up and and began moving toward the officers again holding the piece of rebar.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2020
• On most faces of the exposed slab, only two pieces of rebar can be seen, half of what would be expected.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• Rodriguez explains that steel reinforcement bar, or rebar, runs from the home’s foundations, up through the walls, and connects to the roof.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 9 July 2024
• Mara said workers will demolish the existing pavement, cover it with asphalt and rebar, and then pour concrete on top of it.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024