How To Use Wrench In A Sentence

Just before Chiswick Bridge he suddenly wrenched the wheel round to the right. Times, Sunday Times
The tip of his lance got caught by the serrations of her sword, and he wrenched it out of her grasp, thinking he had won.
i was in floods of tears at the end of "Bridge to Terabithia" when i went to go see it with me ten year old nephew. he promptly spent the rest of the day laughing at me for it and calling me a woose but in my defence it was really sad. lol. wrenchturner (5 posts) on April 16, 2009 - 9: 46pm. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
Hartford Armory has already solved this by offering a screw-in front sight available in different heights, with a special wrench for removal and installation.

He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
Her face contorted with the pain but she wrenched harder, thinking of her freedom.
Step 1: For starters, you will need a few common tools that are more than likely already sitting around the garage, such as a socket wrench set, a C-clamp, a flathead screwdriver, an Allen wrench set, and an ATV stand or lift. How to Replace the Brakes on a Utility ATV
A racer from Team Whole Foods Market wrenched her ankle immediately and vanished in the cloud of dust raised by the stampede.
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
The airport later confirmed that gale-force 9 winds had wrenched the roof open. Times, Sunday Times
The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old THE SEA FARMER
There was also an ancient-looking horn and an "erhu" -- a two-string instrument which produced the most heart-wrenching sounds, and the "yanqin", a string instrument so beautiful and powerful that I thought there were twenty different instruments playing at once! Mao's Last Dancer
Donald added: ‘the switch from a predominantly narrative mode of thought to a predominantly analytic or theoretic mode apparently requires a wrenching cultural transformation’.
Watching her navigate through a hometown she no longer feels safe in is gut-wrenching, literally. Karen Dalton-Beninato: Milneberg Joys and Losses: Treme 15
a wrenching pain
Lionel wrenched him to his feet and cut the wires binding him.
He got out of the vehicle, armed with a wrench. Times, Sunday Times
Guy wrenched his mind back to the present.
She wrenched herself from his grasp.
I'll take twisted or wrenched at a push. Times, Sunday Times
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
In reality, history has shown that such transitions are wrenching and China will be no exception.
He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
You still face the wrench of losing your family. Times, Sunday Times
A few cars had smashed windscreens and the entrails of radios strewn over the seats and onto the pavement where the doors had been wrenched open.
I swear I nearly wrenched the door open to go in and do it myself. The Sun
All of your certainties have been wrenched away from you. Times, Sunday Times
In those eight years they have helped transform Republican presidential politics by wrenching it to the conservative side.
With a violent twist, he wrenched off the handle.
Those emotions are often conveyed through heart wrenching language and vivid imagery. Christianity Today
The digit was torn off when he wrenched his hand away. The Sun
Use socket wrench to remove regulator seat for replacement.
The tool also includes a means for rotating the cutting edge, usually using a brace or bit stock, a wrench, or a handle.
Lacking the special wrenches required to remove the bolts that held the wings on, the dockworkers had employed cold chisels on the bolt heads.
He gave a loud, startling, heart-wrenching cry and fell backwards in a dead faint.
Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger joints!” The Abbot
Finally the English officer, a great lanky fellow with his trouser leg half torn off and a bloody bandage round his knee, succeeded in wrenching the banner away, but the Frog officer, who was about four feet tall, grabbed an end of it, and they came stumbling down in my direction, yelling at each other in their respective lingoes, with their crews joining in. Flashman's Lady
The owner of the shovel grunted and wrenched another mound of dirt out of the ground.
He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand.
The ball was wrenched out of his grasp by another player.
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.
Colin wrenched the wheel, and the car narrowly missed a fair-sized tree as it bobbed down Valsalva Street.
That would help ensure the European economy can continue to expand while economically troubled countries like Spain and Greece make wrenching cutbacks to reduce out-of-control deficits.
The wildly maladjusted and unbalanced U.S. economy must suffer through a wrenching adjustment period.
She could barely wrench herself away. The Sun
It was a wrench, the one Zorlen had broughta huge twenty-pounder normally used on the driver wheels. The Dragons of Krynn
Back-wrenching potholes get deeper and wider.
Remove adjusting keys and wrenches from tool before turning it on.
And it concludes with probably the most emotionally wrenching scene of the year. The Sun
She must have wrenched her ankle when she fell.
The Adagio of this quartet is typically soulful, emotionally wrenching music.
The bolt came away with a tacky wrenching sensation.
It's going to be a huge wrench for me and everyone who has been at the offices for years.
I felt wrenchingly, acidly sick in the centre of my stomach. THE CALLIGRAPHER
At the age of eight, she was wrenched from her foster parents and sent to live with another family.
He wrenched his right shoulder during a game of hockey.
Rotors get warped due to several reasons most common being overtorquing or unevenly torquing the lug nuts with an impact wrench.
Pipe wrenches are necessary to tighten plumbing pipes.
The final duet of the ballet, with all its clashing emotions, was truly wrenching. Times, Sunday Times
It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake.
When you're switching tanks, you use a wrench to turn off the flow and then turn a screw to unclamp the regulator from the tank. Adventures with Oxygen, Episode #352
The ball was wrenched out of his grasp by another player.
Using pliers or a pipe wrench to tighten a bolt or nut. This may scar the bolt head or nut creating a sharp edge.
To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench were not expecting or consulted on. The Sun
It's awful to have that wrenched away in such a cruel and blunt way. Times, Sunday Times
Alternatively, of course, Winter knew everything, was philosophic about it, and Wrench was too obtuse to see. DARE CALL IT TREASON
You know, many people were so loyal to Dan, Peter and Tom, after having been on for over 20 years, that this throws a wrench in everybody's viewing habits.
What I got instead was a gut-wrenchingly awful representation of my community, peopled with unlikeable and unsympathetic characters.
With a violent twist, he wrenched off the handle.
Yanking him back, pulling him out of the virtual back to actuality... and Peal was standing over him, brandishing a wrench. METAPLANETARY
The publish-and-subscribe framework in JMS defines some functionality that could throw a wrench into the works of our effort to remain vendor neutral.
The deckhand was the stoutest person on board, and he bore the octoroon to the deck in an instant, and wrenched the knife from his grasp. Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida
The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her. The Unforgiven
A wrench beside his face pertly pushed up the brim of his orange baseball cap.
She has worn the job lightly and it will be a wrench to leave her boss. Times, Sunday Times
There were heart-wrenching tales from families whose innocent lives he had ruined and scarred forever.
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
Naturally, I dashed back to the car, and promptly wrenched my ankle.
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
The chief grabbed a spanner wrench and rapped on the Baychimoâ€ ™ s hatch three times. 365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
After quite a tussle, I finally wrenched the letter from him.
Intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of the myriad creatures that once inhabited the oceans, it seems poised to wrench itself free from the stone that entombs it.
Finch is well on his way to the top until some unforeseen circumstances drive a wrench into his works.
He gave a wrench to his ankle when he jumped down.
He pulled the tire wrench from behind the seat, and walked to the back of the truck.
The hapless dad 's trousers and pants were snagged and wrenched off. The Sun
Firehoses were turned on and soon three thousand picketers, thugs, and police rumbled in the streets with clubs, blackjacks, wrenches, chains, and tear gas.
The gut-wrenching thing about the Red Sox is they traded their most beloved player and then the team took off and started winning.
Activists say elephant calves are still being wrenched from their mothers to be put to work. Times, Sunday Times
Murphy's mother's agony is laid bare in the gut-wrenching 911 call heralding the death of actress. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Mr. McGrath, who spent $60,000 converting his 15,000- square-foot factory, is like many entrepreneurs facing gut-wrenching decisions as a result of the prolonged economic slump. When Cost Cuts Fail... Drastic Measures
But he and his wife Hillary also face the wrench of leaving behind their three sons, Owen and Daniel, who are in university, and Benjamin, who is still in school.
In fiction, I want a powerful narrative voice that soars off the lyric register with wrenching regrets, achieving what Lorca described as duende, or deep song. Living With Music: Dean Bakopoulos - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
Alternatively, of course, Winter knew everything, was philosophic about it, and Wrench was too obtuse to see. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The wrenching of accent for metrical purposes, moreover, is not confined to the dissyllabic words which show the simple recession of accent. The Principles of English Versification
He went for the cylinder wrench, which he then used for the non-standard purpose of vigorously whanging the valve with strong overhand strokes.
While Elinor lived, Adam dared not risk flinging a monkey wrench into that dream.
I hunt black-and-white fish as they dart through red coral reef, when suddenly I am wrenched from be-hind.
In your spacetime version, when you reach this step, you need to grab the center of the structure and do the tesseract twist, wrench it round by about half a rad. 365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
A sharp wrench to my shoulder and Jonathan forcibly pulling me to my feet shocked me.
Dr. Carol Swain Lewis, an English teacher at Three Rivers who served as a judge, said it was "heart wrenching" to watch some of the students seemingly rush through the words, but she picked up that she had to keep a "stonewall" face on the panel, as to not make it visible that she was emotionally involved. SeMissourian.com Headlines
A damp and cold New England morning seemed to be wreaking havoc on everyone's tuning — you know you're at an early-music concert when the pianist is pulling out a wrench to tune between movements. Archive 2009-06-01
I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle.
I wrenched my eyes away from the disgustingly happy couple, hopped in my car, revved the engine and sped away.
He ordered a loaf, watched as she slipped it into a bag, twisting the top with a wrench of her wrist.
Isabel wrenched her gaze from the limp body at her feet.
Meredith wrenched her gaze from the sad little scrap of paper and looked about her.
Guy wrenched his mind back to the present.
A door was wrenched open and I felt a cool breath of air on my face. Times, Sunday Times
Jason came in and Jess's heart wrenched at his appearance but she refused to be softened towards him.
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
Before long, the explosive story is thoroughly media-wrenched, until the line between reality and sensational fantasy completely disappears.
They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.
The boys in the bays pierce the waves with the cadent zip-zip-zip of their impact wrenches pulling and replacing lug nuts around various vehicles from one wheel to another. Sufficient Grace
Hold the skate over the Allen wrench and place the stripped bolt directly on top of the Allen wrench, as centred on the hole as possible.
He's a wizard with a wrench though, and he always helps me out with repairs.
Leaving Philadelphia was a sad wrench for this lover of hearth and home. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
It washed the clothes while you walked in them—sprayed them, sudsed them, wrenched them, rinsed them. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
It will be a wrench to leave. Times, Sunday Times
The faces are generally ugly, & wrenched into over-expression amounting sometimes to distortion…. Mark Twain
Wrenching sideways, I feel the rope make a sudden lurch down, frightening me.
She felt she had no other option; it was a gut-wrenching decision.
I've now got wrenches, spanners, rasps and paint brushes.
As the dusk fell, heart-wrenching songs on the plight of child workers were sung.
The door lock had been wrenched with a jemmy or similar instrument. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
He wrenched his back in wrestling.
I'm all for gently coaxing language in a kindly direction; but it cannot be wrenched. Times, Sunday Times
Without knowing it, I wrenched at a tube stuck into my wrist.
Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive. THE KANAKA SURF
She hoped to see the class plan fail and she looked for a chance to throw a monkey wrench.
He can imitate any actor, tragic or comic; any known Parliamentary orator or clergyman; any saw, cock, cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter afterwards, bee buzzing, little boy up a chimney, etc. The Newcomes
Wrenched from tradition, tartan has become such fun: deregulated, demystified, with ridiculously corny accessories. Times, Sunday Times
She wrenched the bottle from his grasp.
When an anonymous poster made a plea, last week, for everyone to pause and consider the emotional fallout from adoption – this within the context of debates concerning the emotional consequences of abortion – I immediately thought of my mother and the gut-wrenching turmoil she experienced as a result of giving up a child for adoption. Abortion Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry | Her Bad Mother
Tanis started to speak, but his faltering words were submerged in an agonized, inarticulate roar; a roar of mingled fear and terror and rage that was so beastlike, it wrenched everyone's thoughts from the dragons. Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas
Mac wrenched her eyes away from his with a gasp and suddenly everything was a whirl of motion.
The decision to have such a procedure is already heart wrenching enough. Think Progress » Why Krauthammer Doesn’t Get It
“No you won't,” Peter said, wearing his cockiest grin as he wrenched open the door, one hand companionably resting on the mannequin next to the front door, whom we'd outfitted with a black duct tape bustier and nipple rings, a la Wendy O Williams. Why I Can't Be a Hare Krishna
The bag was wrenched from her grasp.
Leaving home was a terrible wrench for him.
Let us “begin the beguine” at the beginning, with Tom Dyja, brilliant novelist who encouraged me to have fun rather than write something wrenching. One Flight Up
We got the guys from the motor pool to weld a gun mount on the outside of the cupola - the brace on my mount was a huge wrench with thee-inch jaws.
The brakesman entrusted with a rifle in that room paid no attention until a strong hand wrenched it from him. The Return of Blue Pete
If it is too tight and you can get the freewheel off, you can loosen it much more easily by just using the cone wrenches.
Using a strap wrench, tighten hand-tight plus no more than 1/16 turn.
This wrenching of Silas from his home precipitates not just a crisis of social identity but also a crisis of self-identity.
It stands 36 metres wide by nine metres high and is intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of creatures that once inhabited the oceans, all seemingly poised to wrench themselves free from the stone that entombs them.
If you look at the box, the wrench is meant to sit in scratches hands behind his back, as if he’s preparing for a swing. PvPonline » Archive » Proper Care for your Feline Despot
FUZE EXTRACTORS, wrench No. | If required by kind of fuze | Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future. North and South
If you look at the box, the wrench is meant to sit in scratches hands behind his back, as if he’s preparing for a swing. PvPonline » 2009 » March » 12
Hand wrench wrench gusset, I nod, Air Jordan VII, but cannot help but to henceforth see time and time afresh, that ravishing dashing blue dress man, while, just tin arise another?
She wrenched the bottle from his grasp.
It is born at the very moment of our birth: as we are wrenched from the Whole we fall into an alien land. Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture
The photographer tripped over a lead, wrenching a microphone from its stand.
Such switching behaviour can be attributed to the kinematic partitioning of a bulk triclinic strain into end-member domains dominated by non-coaxial, monoclinic contraction and wrench simple shear.
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
The Earl, invigorated with hope and joy, had by the force of his arm, almost wrenched from its fastening, one of the iron bars of the grate; his foot was lifted to the stanchion, ready to aid him in escaping through the opening, when he was seized by the guards of the Baron, and conveyed precipitately from the prison. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
I'm all for gently coaxing language in a kindly direction; but it cannot be wrenched. Times, Sunday Times
Cwery's bright blue eyes were shining with tears, giving Brayden's heart a good wrench.
I wrenched around, my blood pressure blasting into the stratosphere.
The most heart wrenching of these stories is that of the 12-year-old who was bartered away by her father in exchange for a woman to marry his son.
This is, by the way, why primogeniture and formal lines of succession were adopted in monarchies; to reduce fighting and uncertainty in the aftermath of wrenching events. Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back
She was taking the nice little bequeathal Mr. Man had left her in his heart-wrenchingly sweet card—which had started her crying all over again when Doris had quietly handed it to her at the funeral—and buying William a token of her affection. Dragon Warrior
He didn't bother to ask his brother if he used the wrench to conk him out.
Of course, once upon a time it truly was bloody and heart-wrenchingly brilliant, all its ponderous and doomy self-importance notwithstanding.
After quite a tussle, I finally wrenched the letter from him.
My idle hands proceeded to pound, wrench, twist, pry, and yank at anything I could get a hold on.
It wasn't exertion that left him weak-kneed and trembling, but rather the gut-wrenching horror of Joe's scream and his pleas for mercy.
But Mr Foster suddenly crashed through the door, ricocheting the flyscreen against wall, and wrenching the boy from her arms.
In the act of picking the ball up he wrenched his knee, with the ball flying from his hand and he hit the deck.
i was in floods of tears at the end of "Bridge to Terabithia" when i went to go see it with me ten year old nephew. he promptly spent the rest of the day laughing at me for it and calling me a woose but in my defence it was really sad. lol. wrenchturner (6 posts) on April 16, 2009 - 9: 46pm. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
It consists of a long, conical cutting portion of a certain conicity (for instance 1: 50); the shank is equipped with a square so that it can be received by a tap wrench. 3. Construction of hand reamers
Much more wrenching were the larger issues of guilt and responsibility. Berthe Morisot
It is then best to correct the deformity either by wrenching the toe into the dorsiflexed position, under anæsthesia, and fixing it with a plaster-of-Paris bandage; or, when this is impossible, by excising the articular end of the metatarsal bone and interposing a layer of fatty or bursal tissue between the distal end of the metatarsal and the base of the first phalanx. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Going to court can be an expensive, time consuming and gut wrenching experience that is best avoided.
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.
Torque wrenches are precision instruments and need to treated and operated carefully.
It was only inches from Llewelyn's throat when he managed to wrench the man's wrist down against the stone battlement. HERE BE DRAGONS
He had a wrench hanging from his belt loop.
He is not clean, she thought as she wrenched herself free from his grasp.
He hunched forward, wrenching his arms higher and higher up his back until his shoulders felt as if they were about to dislocate, until at last he was holding the little round knurl of the bolt between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. Fear Itself
She wrenched the cap off one of the two mineral bottles, took a brief sip.
He wrenched the head of the Anglepoise towards him and shone it full in his own wreck of a face. A DARKENING STAIN
Feeling the cold steel in his hand, Mario used the wrench to loosen the bolt underneath the sink in the main bathroom of his parents' apartment.
Jason grabbed a wrench and launched it toward the wall.
They can be shrubs and trees of gut-wrenching beauty. Times, Sunday Times
It's awful to have that wrenched away in such a cruel and blunt way. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Before getting up to leave, he slips the allen wrench under Sucre's pillow and places an origami swan on his bunk.
It was the fitful confusion of stop-start fiscal spending that seesawed the economy between hopeful improvement on the one hand, and wrenching cut-backs and consumption taxes urged by austerity-preaching deficit hawks on the other. Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media
She managed to wrench herself free.
Hold the yoke with Wrench 67 Remove the pinion shaft nut and washer.
Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive. THE KANAKA SURF
A few quick turns of a wrench and the joints were together.
Every competent mechanic should have a correctly calibrated torque wrench in their tool kit and should use it.
The film doesn't stint on the harrowing details of families wrenched apart. Times, Sunday Times
Penner announced two years ago he was a transsexual, and wrote a gut-wrenching and brave column about it that made it clear what he was doing and why — and did so with so much grace that the kind of public comment you might expect was mostly quelled. RIP, Mike Penner « Dating Jesus

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