Sentence examples for screwed tight from inspiring English sources

But these railway wheels were screwed tight to the axle.

The residual torque refers to know the force which is at the junction after being screwed tight.

Just past the old brick courthouse and across the street from candy stores and antique shops, a large rectangular banner was screwed tight into the cracked wood siding of a long-vacant building on East Main Street.

My inner wuss reasserted itself just once: as we plunged down the scariest rapid of the trip, known as the Angel's Jump, I banged my face hard on the lifejacket of the chap in front - but that was because I had my eyes screwed tight shut.

The cap was loosened (screwed tight and subsequently turned counterclockwise 360 degrees) and fixed with a piece of tape in order to prevent detachment.

The cap of the O-group was kept loosened (turned 360 degrees counterclockwise immediately after being screwed tight) throughout the entire period of cultivation; the cap of the O-C group was unscrewed for the initial 12 hrs and screwed tightly thereafter; and the cap of the C-group was screwed tightly for the entire period of cultivation.

We're still on the haunting island of Öland, but the tension is screwed tighter than usual, with Jonas Kloss taking a boat out at night to discover a ship with a grisly cargo and personal danger in an excellent translation by Marlaine Delargy.

Italians are "wonderful people" whose heads are not "screwed on tight".

The Italians, of course, those people course don't have their heads screwed on tight.

The cup of the contraption contains a tin plunger, screwed down tight over a spoonful of powder-fine coffee grounds.

In Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the lid on free expression and meaningful democratic reform remains screwed down tight.