pipe wrench

Example Sentences

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When the deputies arrived, they encountered a woman believed to be in her 20s or 30s who was wielding a pipe wrench.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2022

Although he’d occasionally see his father with a pipe wrench, he wondered about the stream of people going into and out of the apartment.

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2015

To prove his point, he showed me a $50 vise-grip pipe wrench that goes for $90 at Lowe’s.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2015

“You can’t just drop your pipe wrench and say ‘O.K., it’s 5 o’clock, I’m going home,’ and they still don’t have water to their house,” he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2014

I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls