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    wrench


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    1. It is a wrench saying goodbye to her – this is no longer a game where all I have to do is go to the right place and collect the trophy … there are people out there trying to stop me … permanently and with extreme prejudice as the saying goes


    2. The now familiar wrench in the pit of my stomach happens again, I daresay I shall get used to being linked with Alastair in time


    3. it’ll be a hell of a wrench leaving the cottage but if it has to be, then that’s that


    4. A large hammer and a wrench solved their problem


    5. ” replied Fletcher, putting down the wrench and massaging his aching fingers


    6. “Not yet, sir, but it will by the time I’ve finished with it” chuckled Fletcher, tapping it with the wrench, “The main piston has been knocked out of place and now it catches on the casing


    7. In some places the wire hung down and would catch on our equipment as we passed by and we would wrench ourselves loose sometimes breaking the wire as we did so


    8. He felt his heart wrench in sympathy and wished she didn’t have to feel this way, but he couldn’t help feeling glad that she was there, as a silent supporter, giving him courage and confidence


    9. Gibbons tosses a wrench into the plans


    10. It took her a moment to wrench her mind back to the conversation

    11. His unfortunate flirtation with Keynesian Economic Policies (Wage and Price Controls) and prolonging the ―Great Society‖ by introducing fresh initiatives, threw a monkey wrench into the economy but enough of that! Seeking (public) forgiveness, if not self-forgiveness, this tormented soul sought redemption in seclusion and productive writing


    12. " He tapped the union with his big adjustable wrench


    13. I ducked as he swiped at me with the wrench


    14. She got the jack and lug wrench and tossed them next to the spare


    15. She pulled off the hubcap—an original spoked model that she’d bought to restore the car to its former glory—and slotted the wrench into place


    16. As she bent to fit the wrench over the third, she realized the bike was stopping


    17. “Nice view,” he said, his gaze resting on her rear, which was still pointed skyward as she bent to push the lug wrench into place


    18. He grunted as he stood, the wrench dangling from his hand


    19. He tossed the wrench into the trunk and closed it, continuing up the left side of the car


    20. Frank struggled against his bonds, face reddening as he tried to wrench his arms free

    21. Frank kicked him between the legs, yelling his defiance as he managed to wrench one arm free


    22. I tried to say something, anything, but the force of his influence came over me again, and it was all I could do to wrench open the door and turn to run into the clean morning light—


    23. A gut-busting wrench of adrenaline hit him as he noted the set of Boyce’s head and neck, his shoulders all bunched up like that


    24. With a wrench I pulled myself back to the present day, and tried to show a little compassion, although I had this particular former student pegged as the classic, ‘A-type personality,’ which is a scholarly euphemism for the nethermost regions of the alimentary canal


    25. that tug and wrench my frame,


    26. That throws a wrench in his strategy


    27. I try to wrench my body out of his grasp


    28. She could not contemplate calmly the thought of such another and harder wrench


    29. And whether the masters of the University have known it or not, their work has all been for one final goal—that the Eastern Lands might wrench themselves free from the grasp of the Empire


    30. His words seemed to wrench her back, to force her into conversation she did not want to have

    31. Those who do not understand the long struggle to wrench freedom from tyranny are less vigilant in its preservation


    32. against this leverage with a second wrench on


    33. She grasped it and, with a mighty wrench, tugged it free


    34. Then, with that terrible wrench, awareness had struck him that he would never do any of this again


    35. Yet the feeble arms of elderly women, for a moment, gained the strength of Samson, and we were able to wrench the heavy slab away


    36. probably just as willing to throw the wrench of his or her


    37. Kevin showed us where the lug wrench was


    38. I took a bight on the wrench, but when I turned it, the pulley just rotated


    39. Then putting the wrench on one bolt, I spun the


    40. As the wheel rotated, I held the wrench still, using it instead as a crank to

    41. Batistuta felt his stomach wrench


    42. "Torque wrench," I said


    43. to be an awful wrench for her


    44. I don’t bother with stone this time, I just wrench myself away from him, backing up until I hit my desk


    45. The pain of leaving, that great wrench called emigration that had torn him and his family away from where he instinctively felt they belonged, was he discovered, still very raw


    46. Before Nick had a chance to reply to Eddie, Mark Sox pulled a wrench from behind his back and cracked it hard against the side of Nick Adams’ skull


    47. Even though Sarah and Martin had bought a house at the other end of the town, it was a wrench that would be raw with her for a while


    48. As for Matthew it would be a big wrench, in the sense that he had no immediate family living in Ireland


    49. As she knotted the silk length about her supple body, Conan turned to the window and with a contemptuous wrench tore away the soft gold bars that guarded it


    50. But somehow, clutching the pincers clumsily with both hands, he managed to wrench out first one spike and then the other












































    1. Hot metal tracks shimmered, giving back the heat absorbed during the long sultry day, groaning to themselves as the thermal stresses wrenched at their very fabric


    2. It wrenched his heart to see her so unhappy


    3. Grabbing a handful of covers he wrenched them back


    4. It had squawked abruptly when she wrenched its wing off; the sound had been unpleasant


    5. The hole spread over a large area, possibly three or four metres across in places; muddy throughout its entire extent: deep, claggy, black mud, sloppy with water and dotted with bits of green from the decimated plants which had been wrenched from the ground by its making


    6. The dead weight stuck in the doorway, one leg catching on the doorpost … Ozzie had wrenched again, hauling on the now insufficient garments half clothing the body


    7. Harry wrenched his gaze from the crowds and boards to follow him to the awaiting carriage, now loaded with their things


    8. ‘And look – one of the bushes has been wrenched out


    9. Looks very much as though it has been wrenched out … must have gone over the cliff edge


    10. " He wrenched his face "Well, I guess it sounded that way

    11. He knew he couldn't stand on its slick surface, he had to get it off of there and wrenched at it in panic


    12. Djgarr roared, his heart wrenched with rage and grief


    13. As the probe moved away, Torbin was wrenched back from his focus on it by Zardino who, with a baleful look, shook his head


    14. He wrenched his arm away from me as though I carried the plague and screamed at me


    15. He wrenched at his hair and his body shook with his sobs


    16. Shock gripped his heart, and his stomach wrenched with fear


    17. ’ Milo wrenched the covers away and prepared for his daily run


    18. His stomach wrenched and his breath caught in his throat


    19. Raven’s stomach had wrenched, and he felt physically sick as he thought about losing her, as he had done with Alexia


    20. The soldier, unaware of his attacker continued his assault until Saldon's massive arm wrenched him off of her

    21. He wrenched his axe slowly around to his left side and watched the serpent carefully


    22. The ashes rose in a cloud behind their boots and from the walls as they wrenched open charred doors


    23. The nearside wheels dropped into the shallow ditch beside the road and Contin’s smile of triumph quickly turned to one of fear when the steering wheel wrenched to one side, breaking his thumb


    24. The sound of boots on metal wrenched Amaranthe’s attention from the scene below


    25. By the time she wrenched her reins to a skidding, spinning stop near him, his face was tight with anger


    26. Kay moved to sit up, and a sharp twinge wrenched her abdomen where the small hoof-mark still troubled her


    27. Would he assume that her times with him were part of that same play-acting? The thought wrenched at her heart, twisting her in agony


    28. The tambourine player gasped in surprise when a half-crazed Detective Inspector Grunt wrenched the tambourine from his hand, pounded across the snow, and laid into us, shouting some very un-Christian like remarks


    29. Agonizingly, he wrenched the arm all the while speaking into her ear, saying ugly, hateful things that registered not as words which could be recalled, but rather as unspeakable evil shrouded in pain which would never be forgotten


    30. After nearly forty-five years of marriage, loosing George was like having a limb wrenched off

    31. They grabbed at her, trying to stop the girl as she rushed passed them, but Kirsti wrenched herself free, disappearing into the night


    32. Screwing out the knurled knobs holding the covers in place, he wrenched the sides off and located the hard drive


    33. She wrenched her face to the side and spit up towards his face


    34. That’s when Hartle wrenched the controls in a great slewing arc, watching as a field of stars swept past his view


    35. He wrenched the overcoat from its plastic wrapper and unfurled it before her


    36. He lunged into another ditch, hit bottom, and the rearview mirror wrenched free to join a hundred other objects flying from one side of the car to the other


    37. He came down hard among the rocks with a bone-jarring crash that sent hubcaps flying, fired a shot of pain up his spine, and wrenched the right front wheel sideways with a terrible ripping noise of twisting steel


    38. It wrenched away and she kicked at it, while trying to regain her feet


    39. It troubled me for an endless amount of time, during which I spent long years trying to figure the exact way in which he had wrenched the Centron’s gears


    40. It seemed to have been wrenched from where it had branched, tearing a piece of trunk off with it, making a flattish surface at its base

    41. Five hours later, painfully stiff legs and a torturous neck-ache wrenched him from sleep


    42. The whole UFO spotters group had finally wrenched


    43. Several men caught hold of the arm and wrenched with all


    44. 39 But when Jared saw what they did, his very soul wrenched itself from them; neither would he taste of their food or of their drink


    45. “What the heck,” blurted Norman, as he was violently wrenched sideways?


    46. She grabbed his arm and wrenched it around his back


    47. "When the man [the angel] saw that he could not overpower him [Jacob], he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man


    48. Because the angel had wrenched his hip out of the socket, Jacob had a limp


    49. He wrenched open the door and shouted into the darkness of the cab


    50. 39 But when Jared saw what they did his very soul wrenched itself from them; neither would he taste of their food or of their drink














































    1. He wrenches open the passenger door and leans out


    2. All these thoughts went through Fred’s mind as he puttered about, getting gloves and funnels, wrenches and oilcans out of the big bin on the side of the truck


    3. I dive for the gun, but before I can touch it, he grabs me and wrenches me to the side


    4. Tobias grabs the Dauntless woman by the back of her neck and wrenches her to her feet


    5. He wrenches me to the side and fires again, hitting Christina in the leg


    6. He stops next to Caleb, grabs his arm, and wrenches him to his feet


    7. Certainly there should be an optimal compartment to store tools and other overnight essentials, including adjustable wrenches, a battery tester, flares because they were under-rated


    8. When I think of maybe never seeing her again, it wrenches my guts


    9. The stout gnome drew his wrenches from his tool belt and hurried into the melee


    10. Sensing the momentary relaxation of his clutching fingers, Josie finally wrenches herself away from him, and, spinning out of reach stands, laughing hysterically, at the mixture of frustration and rage on his face

    11. But Sal and her table were there first, grabbing up wrenches and crowbars and hammers; and they began ripping crates apart in search of other things


    12. with wrenches would jump out, and shielded by the truck would take every


    13. And in the modern era, as the naivety of a Nehruvian socialistic pattern of society perpetuated the Islamic legacy of celebrating poverty, Mother India remained a pauper in the vice-like grip of the State, tightened further by his self-serving daughter Indira, till Narasimha Rao unshackled it by the Manmohanamic wrenches!


    14. The movement wrenches at my heart


    15. It’s like a huge tool chest chock-full of different wrenches and saws and hammers


    16. Gregory grabs my head and wrenches it to the side, giving Uncle Dylan access to my neck


    17. With an air of normality Alex wrenches the car door off its hinges and hauls out a skinny looking boy covered in spots


    18. I had come to understand guns, that they were tools and that they were no more evil, in their essence, than pliers and wrenches


    19. "Oh, if you think of living as the Wrenches do!" said Rosamond, with a little turn of her neck


    20. Devon wrenches on the steering wheel, executing a clumsy right turn

    21. But when you branch out into options, it is like opening your toolbox and seeing a set of Allen wrenches


    22. Yes, they are all wrenches, but there are now so many to choose from


    23. “This and this and this,” said Mink, instructing the others with their assorted spoons and wrenches


    24. “We oughta get us a set a socket wrenches,” he called


    1. his rattling of hinges, his wrenching at shutters,


    2. Little by little the wrenching sobs slow; I hold him, his face against my shoulder, until the shuddering breaths stop


    3. Half wrenching myself out of Berndt’s embrace, I turn to see Deris standing there, Adamant’s reins in his hand


    4. On it raced, growing higher with each turn, enormous even from their distant view, racing backward to Mesapit wrenching and crushing posts and barriers


    5. It was a relief and a blessing how their mutual remembrances did well to ward off the most wrenching pain of the heart


    6. All around Danny’s cottage lightning strikes hit here and there, wrenching the air with their electric screams


    7. Depending on our past actions, the process can be joyful or heart wrenching, but undeniably it affords us a moment of learning


    8. They hadn’t the slightest idea of what conditions were really like nor would they ever be able to grasp the sheer horror and gut wrenching terror of battle or even a raid


    9. Losing Rosie in this way would be like losing my Mother and Father again unthinkable, unbearable and heart wrenching


    10. The weight of his actions swelled inside him, wrenching at his guts

    11. Wrenching her body over, she clawed for his face, but with his free hand, he seized her wrist and held it immobile while, from behind, a heavy man pounced on her, crushing her to the floor as the car sped from the curb


    12. They soon found that Fin’s foot was stuck between the rocks and it took them a lot a tugging and wrenching to free it


    13. Soon after Truman left for Puerto Viejo in the poor light of early morning, she tripped among the rocks, wrenching it and partially tearing loose the sole of her sneaker


    14. The moonlight disappeared behind a swirling mass of storm clouds, just as in his mind, darkness had filled him with gut wrenching panic


    15. Man has made these many wrenching adjustments with capacities that he never realized that he had acquired, and that had never been expressed in quite this way before, nor exaggerated to this degree until Man


    16. lowered, his eyes collided with a heart wrenching sight


    17. boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him


    18. “I need to see them,” I said, a wave of nausea wrenching my stomach


    19. The wrenching pain in my chest at the thought of letting her go was a powerful testament of that


    20. Most times, however, this does not happen and sooner or later we find ourselves having to do those awful, tedious, sometimes teeth grinding and heart wrenching things

    21. Because of the wrenching and overwhelming effect of the sixties, I still live very much in the moment, racing from case to case, from cause to cause, not worrying or reflecting about what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow


    22. “Now, stand up, you wimpey little shit,” Carlisle said, wrenching the door open


    23. The wrenching sadness that eats into your soul can only begin to be relieved by the happiness a new puppy can bring


    24. Quickly Bannister used both hands wrenching the stick from Rawson's grip so severely the plane banked to a near inverted position directly over the friendlies


    25. 5 But they highly incensed at his boldness of speech dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines and wrenching them from their sockets dismembered him


    26. Parker righted the plane and concentrated on recovering flying speed as Bannister slammed his fighter into a wrenching turn, dove past the struggling O-1E and started firing into the tiny area directly ahead of Parker


    27. ” To appreciate the wrenching story one must read the gripping saga, but suffice it here to reiterate the fraud and deception necessary to further the philosophy of unopposed Socialism, which must be perpetuated by coercion


    28. Suddenly, staring me in the eyes her pain was so clear and heart wrenching


    29. The screams the trees made were heart wrenching


    30. After the trepidation and gut wrenching of the first kill, an icy elation slid

    31. Not just tears but a chest wrenching, sobbing deluge of incoherent muttering, gasps of pain, mucus, saliva and salty water


    32. His stomach was wrenching with


    33. It was soul wrenching when she would ask them when she was coming home, often


    34. The Pict was wrenching furiously to free his knife hand, was clutching at Balthus' ax, and driving his knees at the youth's groin


    35. Wrenching away the bow and an arrow he staggered toward the opening of the pavilion


    36. "You're crazy! The machine would break up with this much water aboard," he cried, his hands wrenching the controls while his old flying eyes stared into the black night ahead


    37. Involuntarily, he gasped as the full weight of his body swung free wrenching his already stretched and battered arm muscles


    38. debris out of the way, he made the gut wrenching responsibility of who to


    39. A wrenching feeling came into Joey’s stomach


    40. Lafit felt a gut wrenching pain, he coughed up blood

    41. Clastaan hurried out of the bushes, fueled by adrenaline and fear with a wrenching twist in his gut


    42. The light revealed the heart wrenching sight of hundreds of genothroids surrounding the convoy


    43. Her own mother, wrenching her away and flinging her screaming out the door


    44. Never again, she reproached herself, between waves of nausea wrenching at her stomach


    45. deep, soul wrenching despair


    46. They gripped the ladder and it pulled them upwards, wrenching their arms viciously and dropping them like a yo-yo, thrusting them under the water


    47. when the wrenching squalor


    48. The wrenching screams of his singeing torture


    49. The flashes of brilliance grew in intensity and frequency until, in a sudden wrenching crescendo, the journey ended with one final almighty flash


    50. Harmony fought the wrenching urge to share her secrets














































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    Synonyms for "wrench"

    spanner wrench twist pull rick sprain turn wrick wring tug wrest strain jerk dislodge yank dislocate throw out separate

    "wrench" definitions

    a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments


    a jerky pulling movement


    a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt


    twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates


    make a sudden twisting motion


    twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish


    twist suddenly so as to sprain