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• A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.From the entry monolithic
• She broke into a smile, wrenching herself away from our head physician.From the entry break into
• Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.From the entry jaws
• The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just wailing on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry wail on
• The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just whaling on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry whale on
• “Your spanner’s never like, ‘This shouldn’t be built,’” she said, using a British term for wrench.2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, quoting Amanda Askell, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry spanner
• Wrench Only wasn't too bad of a derust, since I was already really experienced with the category.2022 July 4, u/xemmypoo, “I ran Ratchet 2 Wrench Only at SGDQ, AMA”, in Reddit, r/speedrun, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023. From the entry derust
• But Martin’s increasingly provocative ideas throw a wrench in Elena’s dreams of a happily-ever-after.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry happily ever after
• I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78. From the entry tendon
• There were two monkey wrenches for that, sitting in a bucket.2010, A. M. Murray, The Secret of the Serpent Mound, unnumbered page. From the entry monkey wrench
• Her head, wrenched back, was baring its teeth in a rictal gape.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 44, in Small Island, London: Review, page 413. From the entry rictal
• The cliff-ghast wrenched off the fox's head, and fought his brothers for the entrails.2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass. From the entry ghast
• He raised some very soul searching and gut wrenching questions in his commentary.1999, House of Commons Debates, page 15893. From the entry soul searching
• Its actual efforts at coordination were from the start so many wrenches in the works.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry wrench in the works
• When disconnecting or replacing clamp bolts, use only the correct size open-end wrench.1972 May, Wayne Heyman, “How It Works: The Marine Battery”, in MotorBoating, volume 129, number 5, page 161. From the entry nuthead
• External torque to move socket wrench is produced by squeezing the handles.1964 April, Popular Science, page 115. From the entry plench
• Then he wrenched off the top of a box, and commenced to cram chewing-gum into his mouth.1940 April 27, Max Stafford, “Speed on the Sands”, in Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, page 18, column 3. From the entry chewing-gum
• "Right now, if this machine kicks over," Joe replied, putting down a wrench.1928, Franklin W. Dixon, The Missing Chums, Grosset & Dunlap, page 1. From the entry machine
• Obviously, these bicycle wrenches are quite as useful around an automobile as they are around a bicycle.1914 January 15, [Editors], “Usefulness of bicycle wrenches”, in Motor World, volume 38, number 4, page 34. From the entry bicycle wrench
• Unable to stomach that option, I futilely wrenched harder.2020, Liza Malloy, The Brothers' Band. From the entry unwedge
• Outside in the evening a wattlebird wrenches pieces from the brush tree at the end of the veranda.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 285. From the entry wattlebird
• A wrenching breakup is narrated via Facebook, GChat, Skype and a number of other mediating and alienating applications.2014 February 7, Teddy Wayne, “The 7-Day Digital Diet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry gchat
• I kept the stash under my bed, tools mostly—a cordless drill, a set of wrenches, screwdrivers, some knives.2012, Mar'ce Merrell, Wicked Sweet: A Novel, Feiwel & Friends, →ISBN. From the entry sticky finger
• Torque Fasteners — Illustrates a fastener that must be properly tightened with a torque wrench at this point in the rebuild.2009, Tony Huntimer, How to Rebuild the Big-Block Chevrolet, page 5. From the entry rebuild
• Vise grips in particular are the last resort before a smoke wrench- nothing to lose at that point.2008 September 9, aemeijers, “Adjustable wrench”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry smoke wrench
• Most likely it is the wrench of leaving so glittersome and jovial an estate, which the learned doctor had in mind.2007, Bouck White, The Carpenter and the Rich Man. From the entry glittersome
• I "Kramered" through, and slipped and wrenched my left knee.2006 June 12, Ricki <ricki@asarian-host.net>, “Re: Kween Klutz”, in alt.support.depression.recovery.sanctuary (Usenet). From the entry Kramer
• I use a box-end wrench to provide leverage for bending.2005, Billy Lane, Billy Lane's How To Build Old School Choppers, Bobbers and Customs, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry sissy bar
• Working in microgravity also requires the use of many special tools such as torqueless wrenches, handholds, and foot restraints.2003, Joseph A. Angelo, Space Technology, page 180. From the entry torqueless
• First, get a smoke wrench—what mechanics call an acetylene torch.1999 September, Allen D. Berrien, “The Boat Doctor”, in Boating, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, page 64. From the entry smoke wrench
• Early trips reported trouble that seemed to be fixed by using a wrench to apply repeated doses of percussive maintenance.1996, Alex Law, “Benz touts hydrogen-based fuel cell”, in Toronto Star. From the entry percussive maintenance
• He'd planned to work a double shift Friday night, but Gladys Silverman's indeclinable invitation threw a hefty wrench into David's plans.1994, Helen R. Myers, To Wed at Christmas, page 101. From the entry indeclinable
• Thus, thus is the soul wrenched from the body!1975, José Martí, Elinor Randall, transl., Inside the Monster, Monthly Review Press, page 317. From the entry pour honey into one's ear
• But if he finds a niche in the Hardy theory, he surely throws a pretty hefty wrench into the Tarzanist works.1972, Elaine Morgan, The Descent of Woman, New York: Stein and Day, page 156. From the entry Tarzanist
• Before their wondering eyes they saw him suddenly wrench the ogre's arm backward and snap the armbone from the shoulder.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 31. From the entry armbone

Meaning of wrench

1. noun A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
2. noun An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
3. noun A trick or artifice.

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Questions about wrench in a sentence

How do you use wrench in a sentence?

Wrench is used as a noun and verb. For example: “With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.”

What is a short sentence with wrench?

“And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take?”

What does wrench mean?

Wrench means a movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.