Sentence examples for by screws from inspiring English sources
His box works are, as often as not, joined together by screws.
The ramshackle white porcelain-enamelled steel shell, with its battlement roof, is held together by screws, bolts, and ad-hoc materials (duct tape, scraps of wood, C-clamps).
Membrane tensioning is by screws that act independently on each head, by metal rods, or, now chiefly in military bands, by rope lacings.
They crowned his head with a small metal cylinder, attached to bone by screws, and ran a wire between it and the chip they stuck like Velcro to his brain.
Workpiece tables on machine tools are moved linearly on guiding ways by screws that rotate in bearings at the ends of the tables and mate with nuts fixed to the machine frame.
On a recent morning, she settled back in a chair in a hair salon and let water and shampoo wash over her head, which has four major scars, a crater-like depression and two metal plates held in place by screws.
"We usually learned by screwing up," Duncan said.
I asked what he meant by screwing up.
It will not work on a bottle sealed by screw cap or an artificial cork.
They think that, by screwing you up, they improve their own chances of passing first year".
If by screwing up you mean Summers and the Clinton administration's approach to deregulation, you have a strong point.
