Sentence examples for of a screw from inspiring English sources
He said the failure of a screw allowed the car to settle lower on the track.
The threads of a screw, Rybczynski explains, form a helix, not a spiral.
"My work has got to be accurate," he said, miming the tightening of a screw.
The molding of a screw thread on a container was invented by John Mason in 1858.
A snapshot of the beam itself would look like the threads of a screw, or a bit of fusilli pasta.
Sometimes, it seems that any piece of modern technology can, with a few turns of a screw, be transformed into a weapon of mass destruction.
These tools consist of a hollow steel tube with sharp threads like the end of a screw and a finely honed open cutting tip.
In the weevil, however, the coxa-trochanteral joint, equivalent to the hip joint in humans, appears to have the mechanics of a screw and nut.
The retention of implant-supported prostheses is provided by the use of a screw or cement.
And I was probably less of a screw-up when I left than when I started.
"The ramifications of a screw-up are pretty big: that you've missed a second facility, or that they have reprocessed and we haven't picked it up.
