screw
Example Sentences
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Trees have less dramatic ways to screw up your day: Their roots can infiltrate cracks in septic or sewage pipes, blocking the system and wreaking expensive, smelly havoc.
SYDNEY—Australians are again bracing for rate pain, as an overheating economy forces the central bank to tighten the policy screws.
There’s a bunch of well-cared-for hand tools, sandpaper, a bag of screws, nuts, and bolts, plus a lot more.
From Literature
If this is what Netflix has determined that viewers want, we need to screw with their data, and fast.
From Salon
Sri Lanka posted a relatively modest 219 after England's spinners had turned the screw on a surface which offered appreciable turn.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
