screw

Example Sentences

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“I catch crocodiles, and a crocodile has never managed to screw up my ribs like that,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Three times Robertson's New Zealand met Steve Borthwick's England last year, and three times England were ahead after an hour only for the All Blacks to turn the screw in the final quarter.

From BBC

She battles a rapey demon by calling forth the personality of a previous, angrier Black woman to screw it roughly enough to scare it into submission.

From Salon

But in those milliseconds he thought they needed to turn Fiji round as we are up on the scoreboard, so he kicked it to pin them back and turn the screw.

From BBC

New Zealand turned the screw, just like the last time and the time before that and the time before that.

From BBC