SCREW in a Sentence

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78 example sentences for SCREW, such as:

1. He screwed the mirror onto the wall.
2. They sell screws and nails by volume.
3. The ball screwed and flew into the goal.
4. Turn the screw to the right to tighten it.
5. The screw was so tight that it wouldn't move.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCREW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
screw
 n.  cause to penetrate with a circular motion; fastener with shank and slotted head
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  As a matter of fact, that screw was not used.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
2  This bottle was opened by a pocket screw, probably contained in a knife, and not more than an inch and a half long.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
3  If you will examine the top of the cork, you will observe that the screw was driven in three times before the cork was extracted.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
4  This long screw would have transfixed it and drawn it up with a single pull.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
5  He immediately began to talk to Drummle: not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but apparently led on by it to screw discourse out of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
6  'I'll tell you what I am,' whispered Mr. Creakle, letting it go at last, with a screw at parting that brought the water into my eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
7  Every attempt has been made, the screw has come unscrewed.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 30
8  I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
9  The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  Just when it seemed to him that another turn of the screw would kill him, little Stanislovas stopped.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
11  Taking from his box a piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  She knew he had a good screw for one thing and she suspected he had a bit of stuff put by.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
13  At the present time, for example, the mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five hundred horse-power.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
14  He had something of the look of sailors, who are accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
15  'I'll put a screw into that business,' said the little tailor.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
Example Sentence:
1  The nut isn't tight enough yet: give it another screw.
2  Turn the screw to the right to tighten it.
3  A carpenter's tools include saws, hammers, and screw - drivers.
4  The screw was so tight that it wouldn't move.
5  He was held in his precarious position by ice screw and rope.
6  Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
7  It really screwed him up when he saw his friend get killed.
8  He screwed the mirror onto the wall.
9  The ball screwed and flew into the goal.
10  He screwed the paper small and chucked it in the bin.
11  It's a bizarre concept that Alaskan volcanoes were screwing up the Nile watershed, causing the flow of one of the world's mightiest rivers to slow.
12  This packet is supposed to contain ten screws, but it's two short.
13  A new plant in Scotland is being tooled up to produce these screws.
14  They sell screws and nails by volume.
15  Just a day after congress granted him special powers he has begun turning the screws on the international oil companies.