Sentence examples for like a screw from inspiring English sources

Warming up, Nikita twisted from side to side, like a screw.

"If you have a screwdriver, everything looks like a screw," he said.

Instead of one final pounding of the nail, Sanchez's improvement was more like a screw turning — gradual — and when the Jets needed him to throw last weekend against the Bengals, he passed effectively.

The sight of something in the sky – which turns out to be a hawk – is "a faint dark flake, like a screw of charred paper rising from a bonfire".

The trepan was a small tube-shaped saw that was operated in the fashion of a wimble, in which a handle was used to turn the teeth of the saw like a screw.

Also on the drawing board from competitors was a London Eye-style big wheel that allowed you to drive into a pod and park; a revolving underground system with space for three cards that moves up and down like a screw and cars with robotic arms that can paint a space for themselves wherever they want to stop.

I didn't want to leave feeling like a screw-up.

As people around me talk about their own successes and others' triumphs, I continue to feel like a screw-up.

I felt weak and lost, like a screw-up, and at the same time, coming out of it, I felt like I'd been given a huge gift".

You can also never feel lonely, abandoned or generally like a screw-up, if you're your own best friend.

Sometimes, fate has its ways of turning things around and making you feel like a screw-up.