"screw" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Almost reluctantly, Mack pulled the Beretta, checked that the silencer was screwed firmly in place, rested his elbows on an engine-room blower stack, sighted, and shot Astio Traditore through the head.
- But when it was screwed firmly into place, he stood back and admired it and didn't regret for one moment that he had spent all of his savings on it, even if Mrs Harper had probably screwed him for two or three hundred dollars more than it was actually worth.
- His legs, stretched out, almost reached the other side of the metal table, which was firmly screwed to the floor.
- When the English come for drinks, the glass is screwed firmly into the hand while talking, smoking or eating.
- The unit itself was based on an EMI Minifon wire recorder (originally a 1950s espionage gadget from the west-German manufacterer Protona Monske) fitted into a perspex box firmly screwed together.
- At length, however, with the assistance of Mr. Weller, the unfortunate skates were firmly screwed and buckled on, and Mr. Winkle was raised to his feet.
- "That top firmly screwed on?"
- At this moment he was sitting in his armchair, silent, absorbed, lost in reflection, sheltered under his high-crowned hat-- a kind of black cylinder which always seems firmly screwed upon the head of an American.
- Bashir nodded, his neutral expression- the one he'd practiced in that Dominion prison- firmly screwed in place.
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