Out of luck

Usage examples of screwed.

The Captain screwed his glass into his eye, and greeted Bernard in his usual fashion--that is, as if he had parted with him overnight.

Kelly stopped cold, realizing that the can screwed onto the barrel blanked out his sights.

What Prospero and Caliban, two characters from an ancient Shakespearean play, are doing waiting for us on this real Earth, and why the quantum basis for the entire solar system is being screwed up by these Brane Holes that keep popping up.

The typical head-piece of the 17th-century soldier in England and elsewhere is a burgonet skull-cap with a straight brim, neck-guard and often, in addition, a fixed vizor of three thin iron bars which are screwed into, and hang down from, the brim in front of the eyes.

If the explosions had been mistimed or badly aimed, they were screwed.

Wyman took a Palm Pilot out of the desk drawer, turned it on, screwed the monocle into his right eye, tapped the screen with the stylus, and peered.

I knew suddenly it was the most important thing I could do, to make sure that the Petroses of the universe stopped getting screwed.

The push rod was screwed into a miniature piston head which, in turn, actuated a trio of switches.

Then I screwed the cap back on, twisted the valve, repressurized with nitrogen.

Butler was just an ordinary schmo whose ordinary life had been extraordinarily screwed by bad advice from a pastry.

Lady Seriema stepped out of the Basilica, her heavy features distorted by a scowl, and her mouth screwed up tight with displeasure and distaste.

This whole slaughtering fifth kigh thing, you being here in my body, has screwed up everything he thought he could be sure about in his entire life.

They made off, the girls looking back now and then and staring at Spinney, their eyes screwed up, some with spite, others with puzzlement.

Lysander Standish, all silken, all scented, all intolerance , striking up his pose of outrage in the doorway, a whining poodle clenched ruthlessly to his lime-green waistcoat and his quizzing glass all but screwed into one eye.

She had lovely gray eyes and only the barest indication above her brows where the stereotaxic device had been screwed to her skull.