Sentence examples for wrenches off from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most incredible scene is when Margaret exacts her revenge on a priest for abusing another inmate, Crispina (Eileen Walsh); she puts nettles in his laundry and watches as the man wrenches off his vestments in the middle of communion in agony, skin aflame.

As the orchestra plays a stomping series of cataclysmic chords, a malevolent sea witch wrenches off the mermaid's fluid blue costume and leaves her almost naked and shivering onstage.

Not far away, people clambered over abandoned armored vehicles, using wrenches to pull off their treads and remove their heavy weapons until they were reduced to junk.

I wrenched off the Denise, clapped on Armanda and handed Danièle my check for 529 euros.

I wrenched off my goggles, panting, before the bemused beautician lowered the Intense Pulsed Light laser gun.

In the old days, trains with damaged wheels would have to be taken out of service for days, the wheels wrenched off and placed on a lathe.

After the failure of the August 1991 coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev, the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky was wrenched off its plinth outside the K.G.B.'s Lubyanka headquarters.

The £5.5m promised by George Osborne vanished, it has just been confirmed, when the former chancellor's grip was wrenched off the exchequer in May.

There were some excruciating images: rag-doll figures bouncing down the mountain, their helmets wrenched off by the deadly forces that in 2001 confined one especially humbling interviewee, Silvano Beltrametti, to a wheelchair.

In Regent Street, the windows of the royal couple's car and their escort vehicles were smashed, wing mirrors and wipers "wrenched off" and paint and other objects including bottles were thrown and them.

As you remove the wire holding down the cork of a bottle of Norman cider, wrench off the cork, and pour a glass of chilled liquid, what is that gorgeous smell?