Sentence examples for two thumbscrews from inspiring English sources

Attach the inside ring diamond head to the spindle housing using the two thumbscrews provided.

Instead of the tiny screws typically used to fasten the cards to the case, in the Mac Pro a single "bar" held the cards in place, which is itself held in place by two "captive" thumbscrews that can be loosened by hand without tools and will not fall out of the case.

Two and a half years of slow thumbscrew torture came to a helter-skelter, hugger-mugger confusing conclusion.

One could imagine unwinding with a drink after an encounter with thumbscrews.

A divider with a circular sector, or wing, connecting the two legs was sketched in 1245; its modern counterpart is the wing divider with a thumbscrew clamp and screw for fine adjustment.

Were thumbscrews applied?

THERE will be no thumbscrews.

Euro-zone finance ministers turned the thumbscrews by saying they would not hand over the latest tranche of bail-out funding to Greece, worth €8 billion ($10.7 billion), until mid-November, a month later than planned.

AB InBev urged shareholders to deploy their thumbscrews.

How on earth will they apply the thumbscrews?

"Apple and Samsung are really turning the thumbscrews on the rest of the market.