How to Use rebar in a Sentence

rebar

noun
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  • The screens are anchored into the sand with pieces of bent rebar.
    — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 21 June 2019
  • In the kitchen pantry, builders left a small section of the rebar and mesh exposed so the unique design and method of construction can be seen from the inside.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • Between them, a rebar shell recalls the drill shed felled by a tornado that now holds an outdoor pavilion with a skating rink in the winter.
    — Andrea Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2018
  • The man stabbed three people, including one who struck his arm with a piece of rebar to try and knock free the 8-inch knife, according to charges filed against him.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 16 May 2019
  • Next to her coffin, her brothers and uncles were sawing pine planks, mixing cement, and measuring rebar.
    — Carlo Gabuco, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Makers of rebar in China, where mills pump out more than half the world’s steel, spent the summer stocking up ahead of the new regulations.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • In this case, the biggest one comes right at the top: after getting thrown off a horse, impaled by rebar, and cornered by two hordes of zombies, Rick manages to escape!
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
  • Liu: When constructing buildings, definitely use rebar in your concrete.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2024
  • With a background in construction, designer and artist Troy Smith became fascinated with rebar from early on.
    — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 26 Feb. 2019
  • Without funds to rebuild, officials decided to lay down rebar and pour a layer of concrete on top of the submerged fragment, turning the flotsam that had destroyed the pier into the pier itself.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Calves were deprived of adequate nutrition, and the video shows employees stabbing and hitting calves with steel rebars and branding irons, ARM said.
    — Michelle Lou, CNN, 6 June 2019
  • With more than half the world’s steel now American-made, the markets for cars, home appliances, toys, and reinforcing bars (rebar) for construction were as lucrative as ever.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • The new standard for steel rebar in China—which sets out specifications for three high-strength grades, each requiring a helping of vanadium—took shape as buyers were facing a shortfall.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Get four pieces of steel rebar from Home Depot and wire it to the trunk.
    — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • So is, of course, concrete with metal in the mix, like rebar.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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