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118 examples of Screw in a sentence

And you'd run a long cord into the house where you could screw it into your light socket.
Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, it's not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can eradicate or overcome.
We need to employ someone to glue and to screw the sole of the feet.
They're the next turn of this particular screw, which has been going on 20 years now.
They didn't intend to screw up Asia, but they did because of the way that the protocols work.
She says that there is only a limited number of ways you can screw — well, she says it in another way — and she has tried them all.
So at North Carolina State University, we challenged our students to come up with a simple solution, and this is what they came up with: a simple, modified screw auger that can move the waste up from the pit and into a collecting drum, and now the pit worker doesn't have to go down into the pit.
I remember one story he told me about screws, and about how you need to have the right screw for the right job.
And we designed a special screw, a custom screw, much to the chagrin of our investors.
They were like, "Why are you spending so much time on a little screw?
With that custom little screw, there was just one screw in the box, that was easy to mount and put on the wall.
Within two weeks, I was out of there, and I left with one intention: to find something that I could screw up.
Instead of wagging their paddles back and forth, they wind them like a cork screw.
Just as a cork screw on a wine bottle converts winding motion into forward motion, these tiny creatures spin their helical tails to push themselves forward in a world where water feels as thick as cork.
And yes, I worry we could screw up Mars the way we've screwed up Earth.
Well, the problem is, we continue to implant synthetic implants in our body, which we glue and screw into our body.
But if we go to 2029, we really have the full maturity of these trends, and you have to appreciate how many turns of the screw in terms of generations of technology, which are getting faster and faster, we'll have at that point.
Screw you.
What's also quite incredible is that there are five materials that are used to build this settlement for seven million people: eight-foot tall bamboo, string or rope, nails or screw and a skinning material.
OK, the gentleman on the left is saying, "Screw you, I'm going to check my device."
But screw that.
I say we give it a shot anyway because we've just come too far to screw it up now.
Some people actually come back and say, "Oh, you want to screw me.
And you can drill, cut, nail, screw paint and replace, with a minimum of cost.
I'm like, screw that.
So we said screw it, we'll start our own company, which we did, three years ago.
Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.
Who would screw around with an army that could do that?"
Wouldn't it be more like Buddy to screw Guy completely by turning him over to the police?
What is it with studios like Paramount that have a proven hit film series on their hands, and figure it can screw around with the budget and formula?
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