Sentence examples for back wrench from inspiring English sources

Re "Web at Your Back, Wrench in Your Hand" (Online Shopper, May 17), about Web sites offering parts for appliance repairs: I've had good luck with www.culinaryparts.com.com

LIKE a lot of kids, I memorized the forbidden vocabulary of grown-ups by standing within earshot of my dad on Saturdays when he was on his back, wrench in hand, raging at pieces of metal that refused to do what he wanted them to do.

There are times you want to sob with her, as she bloodies her knuckles and throws out her back, wrenching her reluctant house closer to its best possible self.

They want respect for their long hours of work that risks their bodies, for the hands caught in vices, backs wrenched by weights, and knees torn.

He felt a back-wrenching jolt when he yanked the ripcord, his lines got tangled on the way down, and he landed in the top branches of a spruce tree.

Then I realized that some knucklehead had climbed atop Woldenberg's metal back and wrenched the poor man's stately horn-rims upward.

I have visions of a school medical, but fortunately matron elicits by verbal means that I'm unsporty, with a bad back - wrenched on the three-hour charabanc ride over pitted roads from Riga - and a penchant for the local 60p-a-pint beer.

Attempts to lighten the ship enough to float her off were futile and she remained stuck fast taking damage from wave action that strained her back and wrenched off her sternpost, rudder post and rudder.

Mark the back of the wrench at the center of the drive of the wrench.

By reinstating Parliament, Mr Morsi is trying to wrench back some of the authority stripped from civilian politicians.

But maybe there are ways and means that pressure can be brought to bear on Capitol Hill to wrench back some of the money.