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28 examples of Wrench in a sentence

And so it's not going to break very easily, but if it does, virtually every piece in this machine can be swapped out and replaced with a hex wrench and a screwdriver.
No, instead I got a convoluted plot involving Nazi mystics, Fritz Lang and about ten minutes of Al, a joke of a Cameo by Roy Mustang and only one Armstrong joke, one short joke and no Winry hitting Ed with a wrench.
Soon, the guy's brother returns from a trip, finds the body and is bashed with a monkey wrench... Brother's girlfriend shows up looking for him, finds the TWO bodies and has her throat slit.
His brother rolls into town, Marcos confesses to the murder and his brother also tries to talk him into turning himself in and is immediately clubbed over the head with a wrench.
Most of the time he does help them in the end but the devil is very tricky and usually turns up to throw a wrench in Morgan's plans.
I really wish there was any, even the remotest conclusion or a resolution at all...The 9/11 incident in the climax is just used and abused and fails to even slightly wrench the muscles of the heart.
People who enjoyed Bridget Jones, Love Actually etc will find an emotional wrench with the mothers strength and weakness, as I did.
This is a great little film that just builds and builds... Everything seems to be going well until Anthony Quinn shows up and throws a monkey wrench into the whole works and the "gang" have to go (reluctantly) legit.
There are two kinds of b movies out there, the ones that are jammed together in the most cynical fashion to wrench out a few bucks and nothing more.
It also has Rip Torn who I cannot watch now without hearing "if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball."
Racked with guilt Marcos confesses all to his Brother Steve who also says he must tell the police, in no time whatsoever Marcos beats Steve to death with a wrench.
CAMBRIDGE -- Will the political resurgence of labor unions throw a wrench into the wheels of globalization?
Without costing the US a penny, Biden would dramatically repudiate Trump’s isolationism and throw a wrench into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s divide-and-rule strategy in Europe.
But the recently announced impeachment proceedings against Trump could throw a wrench into this process.
There was only this hope left, to bend this man and to wrench from him another week's credit.
I've gotten hold of a monkey wrench to unscrew the nuts bolting the skiff to the Nautilus's hull.
First, Ned Land closed and bolted the opening cut into the Nautilus's sheet iron, using the monkey wrench he had with him.
I got quite cross with them after a bit, and told them what I thought of them, and then they gave the gimlet such an excruciating wrench that I woke up.
The astonishment of the village may be easily imagined, when (the little stone having been raised with one wrench of a spade) Mr. Pickwick, by dint of great personal exertion, bore it with his own hands to the inn, and after having carefully washed it, deposited it on the table.
There--see how this iron bar bends beneath my furious wrench.
'Hold my hat, Sammy.'Having divested himself of this encumbrance, Mr. Weller gave his body a sudden wrench to one side, and by a dexterous twist, contrived to get his right hand into a most capacious pocket, from whence, after a great deal of panting and exertion, he extricated a pocket-book of the large octavo size, fastened by a huge leathern strap.
'My uncle looked at the guard for a few seconds, in some doubt whether it wouldn't be better to wrench his blunderbuss from him, fire it in the face of the man with the big sword, knock the rest of the company over the head with the stock, snatch up the young lady, and go off in the smoke.
It was but a stone, wedged between frog and shoe in the off fore-foot, but it was a minute or two before we could wrench it out.
I am poor, I am penniless--should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you!"
"By St Anthony!" answered the black-brow'd giant, "I will consent that your highness shall hold me a Saxon, if either Cedric or Wilfred, or the best that ever bore English blood, shall wrench from me the gift with which your highness has graced me.""Whoever shall call thee Saxon, Sir Baron," replied Cedric, offended at a mode of expression by which the Normans frequently expressed their habitual contempt of the English, "will do thee an honour as great as it is undeserved."
Our mailed step shall ascend their throne--our gauntlet shall wrench the sceptre from their gripe.
_May_ 8.—Went to the wreck, and carried an iron crow to wrench up the deck, which lay now quite clear of the water or sand.
Once wrench your heart from man, and fix it on your Maker, the advancement of that Maker's spiritual kingdom on earth will be your chief delight and endeavour; you will be ready to do at once whatever furthers that end.