How To Use Monkey wrench In A Sentence
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It puts a monkey wrench to your plans.
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And some parents think a job in engineering means wearing a boiler suit and carrying a monkey wrench.
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Those were looked upon with a bit of scorn by the Veteran's Administration as a group of political appointees that had to be pacified and kept quiet and not allowed to throw any monkey wrenches in the working of the machinery of appellate judication.
Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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It puts a monkey wrench to your plans.
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Frank stews and then arms himself with a monkey wrench and takes to the streets to fight crime.
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He is then hit with a monkey wrench and given electric shocks.
The Sun
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He is then hit with a monkey wrench and given electric shocks.
The Sun
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I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench.
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There is no such thing as a tappet, a left-handed monkey wrench or a sky hook.
Ask Mr. Fix-It!
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But the boss threw a monkey wrench into our plans today when he told me I have to go to a business meeting in New York next week.
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These memories dealt with a remote time, when a hawse was a hawse, and you couldn't have it put all over you by a lot of slick young smarties that could do a few things with a monkey wrench.
The Wrong Twin
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It also means that I can see what tools I have at a glance, reducing the chance that I'll wind up with a monkey wrench I don't need.
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And some parents think a job in engineering means wearing a boiler suit and carrying a monkey wrench.
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A federal judge threw a monkey wrench into the project to build a new oil refinery on the river. He ordered the company to stop work until they had a better plan to guard against water pollution.
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Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
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But the boss just threw a monkey wrench into my plans -- he asked me to stay late to finish up a special report for him.
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Your subpoena is going to put a complete monkey wrench in what we are doing.
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Frank stews and then arms himself with a monkey wrench and takes to the streets to fight crime.
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Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
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Illustrations for The Monkey Wrench Gang, a 1986 book about a fictional group of eco-warriors, appear alongside autobiographical strips done for The New Yorker.
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She hoped to see the class plan fail and she looked for a chance to throw a monkey wrench.
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While Elinor lived, Adam dared not risk flinging a monkey wrench into that dream.