767 examples of wrench in sentences

he roared, advancing upon the child, raising the hand that still held the wrench with which he had been working on the machinery down stairs.

There was a sharp wrench, an odd crack, a grunt from Uncle Pros, and then the mountaineer sprang to his full and very considerable height with a roar.

After trying in vain to wrench an answer out of death, the poet ends in his accustomed strain

[Footnote 28: "The simple undoubting faith which for ages has been the support and consolation of a large portion of mankind, especially of the weak, the humble, the unlearned, who form an immense majority, cannot disappear without a painful wrench, and leaving for a time a great blank behind."

The pain served only to madden the beast, and, before I could wrench free, he had me clutched in an iron grip, my jacket torn into shreds.

It was rather a wrench for my husband and me,giving our approval to using a church for a club-house.

The girl ducked her head in an effort to wrench free.

Lanyard sidestepped, nipped a wrist, twitched it smartly up between the man's shoulder-blades (with a wrench that won a grunt of agony), caught the other arm from behind by the hollow of its elbow, and held his victim helplessthough ill-advised enough to continue to hiss and spit and squirm and kick.

The old bike swerved violently, but with a wild wrench I just succeeded in righting her.

In spite of strong literary proclivities it would certainly have been a wrench to Lord John to leave the stirring scenes of Parliamentary life, and his feeling about it may be gathered from a letter written to his brother in 1841: Lord John Russell to the Duke of Bedford ENDSLEIGH, October 13, 1841

KEY'S ANSWER "Shine?" inquired the Monkey Wrench Of Stately Doctor Key; "No!" replied that haughty soul.

"Didn't I tell yer I'd wait, and you was to bring me back a lot to eat?" Young Robin waited for no more, but in his agony of spirit he gave himself a wrench sidewise, dislodging his rider, and made an effort to struggle up again.

I seized one of them by his long black hair, and, giving him a sudden wrench, brought him to his back in an instant, and, placing my knees firmly on his breast, held him there, my hand clenched in his hair.

If you will watch the poor engineer when he stops his engine, he will, if he does anything, pick up a wrench, go around to the wrist pin, strike the key a little crack, draw a nut or peck away at something else, and can't see anything for grease and dirt.

Never use a wrench on these nuts.

You will see that it is necessary to make a careful examinations and not get mad, pick up a wrench and whack away at the check valve, bruising it so that it will not work.

She had had most of her teeth drawn before I saw her, and an attempt had been made to wrench out the nerve on the left side by the external scission.

And he is at no pains to concealit seems even to console him to showwhat a pang and wrench it cost him to break from that home under whose shadow his spiritual growth had increased.

WRENCH, EMILY KIMBROUGH.

Emily Kimbrough (Mrs. Kimbrough Wrench) (A); 7Oct71; R514383. WRENCH, MRS. KIMBROUGH. SEE WRENCH, EMILY KIMBROUGH.

Emily Kimbrough (Mrs. Kimbrough Wrench) (A); 7Oct71; R514383. WRENCH, MRS. KIMBROUGH. SEE WRENCH, EMILY KIMBROUGH.

Emily Kimbrough (Mrs. Kimbrough Wrench) (A); 7Oct71; R514383. WRENCH, MRS. KIMBROUGH. SEE WRENCH, EMILY KIMBROUGH.

The princes of pure science, M. de Lagrange, M. de Laplace, M. Monge, did not disdain to wrench themselves from their learned calculations in order to second the useful labors of Lavoisier.

Of course that shut his mouth the closer, but it morally doubled his motive, and he kept himself from crying out till the sudden pain of the wrench was over.

Charles Wrench Vanderford was his grandfather, and a member of the Old Maryland Line, in the Revolutionary war.

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