How To Use S wrench In A Sentence
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His sword impaled one, but the weapon was wrenched aside as the leader flung the expendable one forward and raised his axe in both hands.
The Gates of Thorbardin
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Certainly he would have increased the likelihood of gaining insight had he focused on Nietzsches books rather than on scribbled notes and sentences wrenched from context.
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The image of the Patroness of the Church was wrenched out of the porch centuries ago.
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Then my friend was knocked over with such force that his arm was wrenched completely out of its socket.
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Three pumps were extensively damaged with nozzles wrenched off and display fascias smashed in.
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The film doesn't stint on the harrowing details of families wrenched apart.
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In an effort not to crush them and/or avoid severe plastic pokey bit perforation of your foot, you will twist one way or the other and thus wrench your ankle.
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a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest
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Detectives believe that Elizabeth managed to grab the canister, but it was wrenched from her grasp.
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She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.
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A yell of surprise was wrenched out of her.
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Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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Even the pay-and-display parking machines had their doors wrenched open.
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Detectives believe that Elizabeth managed to grab the canister, but it was wrenched from her grasp.
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For once he was wrenched out of his wonted calm.
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Then my friend was knocked over with such force that his arm was wrenched completely out of its socket.
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The ball was wrenched out of his grasp by another player.
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She was badly injured and her spine was wrenched out of place.
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While occasionally succumbing to contrivances, Hilary Brougher's second feature (her first is The Sticky Fingers of Time, an ultra-low budget sci-fier from 10 years ago) is all movie, but more intriguing is how it tells a distinctly (sometimes wrenching) feminine tale without making it only relative to Oprah watchers and talk-show bingers.
GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
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I gave a loud yell of indignation when the book was wrenched from my hands, and I looked up to see Alex staring down at me, amusement glittering in his stormy eyes.
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This wrenching experience may be bearable when it is the price to be paid for development.
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I contrived to give one of them a smart tap on the crown before they came to close quarters; but ere I could recover myself they were upon me, the staff was wrenched from my grasp, and I was as hard put to it as a stag bayed by hounds.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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As quick as thought the tent was struck, the pegs wrenched from the ground, and the ghazi surrounded, overpowered, secured, and incidentally in due course hanged.
The Story of the Guides
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The ball was wrenched out of his grasp by another player.
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At the age of eight, she was wrenched from her foster parents and sent to live with another family.
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The ball was wrenched out of his grasp by another player.
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The habitual spectators at the School of Medicine, the College of France, and the Faculty of Sciences, know how experiments are made on the living flesh, how muscles are divided and cut, the nerves wrenched or dilacerated, the bones broken or methodically opened with gouge, mallet, saw, and pincers.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works!
Archive 2009-04-26
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A door was wrenched open and I felt a cool breath of air on my face.
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These sometimes wrenching, ultimately hopeful stories are interweaved with stunning time-lapse photography from the Ground Zero site, as it comes back to life.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Torchwood and HBO Finales, Plus 9/11 Programming
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The bag was wrenched from her grasp.
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This wrenching of Silas from his home precipitates not just a crisis of social identity but also a crisis of self-identity.
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To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork.
Glyn Severn's Schooldays
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Blake believed man was originally part of the great cosmic ‘Oneness’ until he was wrenched from it and made mortal by the god of the Old Testament and then, insult to injury, further divided by being cloven into the two sexes.
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The film doesn't stint on the harrowing details of families wrenched apart.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bag was wrenched from her grasp.
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Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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Every death is ugly and undignified, as life is wrenched away, leaving an inanimate, waxen corpse.
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Then he felt a sudden tug and the pad was wrenched from his grasp.
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A door was wrenched open and I felt a cool breath of air on my face.
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On Boing Boing Gadgets, this wrenching video in which Eve Ensler explains that Congolese militias use rape to enforce discipline among a slave workforce that mines columbite-tantalite ore, a common raw material for many devices.
Boing Boing
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I was wrenched back into the frigid brine, unconscious, and helpless.
