19 examples of screwdrivers in sentences

There was a hitch somewhere; McGaffey muttered naughty words under his breath and plied wrenches and screwdrivers in a way that brought a thrill of anxiety, approaching fear, to every heart.

So his father got a screwdriver and removed it, making as little noise as he could.

Then I heard someone outside my cabin-door working as though with a screwdriver, unscrewing a screw from the woodwork.

Therefore I succeeded in getting hold of a screwdriver from the carpenter's shop, and next night, when everyone was asleep, I crept out and unscrewed the panel, when to my surprise I saw that the secret cavity behind was filled with beautiful jewelry, diamond collars, tiaras, necklets, fine pearls, emeralds and turquoises, all thrown in indiscriminately.

There's a screwdriver here in the locker.

" Armstrong threw the screwdriver down upon the table and shrugged his shoulders.

Look at Armstrong's hand!" He held up the mate's right hand, and there was the screwdriver which he had wished to use the night before.

"And you think there's someone hiding in the box?" "There's no doubt about it," said Allardyce, picking up the screwdriver and setting his jaw like a man who needs to brace his courage.

handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.

"If a man works with a plow instead of a screwdriver, it doesn't follow that his mind is as vacant as a cow that stands stockstill in the middle of the road to show you that you can't fool her into thinking that radiators are good to eat.

When George could hold the flask, he pushed the investment out of the cylinder and chipped at it with a screwdriver.

He swiveled them over the sash and tightened them down with a screwdriver.

We had, however, a few thin boards, the remnants of our canned goods boxes, and from my seamless sack of personal baggage I produced two gimlets, a screwdriver, a pair of nippers, some wrought nails and two dozens of screws of various sizes.

Consider, now: Here was a trap-door, most insecurely hung on external hinges; the burglar had a screwdriver, for he took off the door-lock below with it.

The port one responded promptly, but the other would do nothing; and as we ran out of the creek and headed up the river, the Commodore was appealing to the obdurate machine with a screwdriver and a monkey-wrench.

A knife fitted with corkscrew and screwdriver; therefore take two, and try to keep one carefully locked up. 19.

Mrs. Smithson's rifle was soldered like a sardine into a strong tin case, and no cold-chisel or screwdriver was forthcoming.

The slates were then tightly screwed together at the open end, by myself, with the blade of an old knife which was at hand to serve the purpose of a screwdriver.

I believe I could have opened it with a screwdriver.

19 examples of  screwdrivers  in sentences