What is "wrenches"

Usage examples of "wrenches".

He found a small set of hand wrenches and unfastened them from their fixture.

He let the wrenches hang in midair and reached for the tiny camera in his leg pouch.

As he tucked the camera back and reached for the wrenches once more, something flickered in the corner of his eye.

Kinsman gripped his tiny horde of stolen wrenches and headed for the hatch.

He caught a glimpse of the cosmonaut as the wrenches rained around him.

No time to talk, to explain as her teeth find his earlobe, shocking pain flooding his eyes, he wrenches free, "Lie still.

His foot slips in loose rock and he wrenches his knee, pain bright as crushed mint.

There are some long-handled wrenches, some spare levers, and a couple of braces and bits.

It was under a gas lamp, and the glitter of the long-handled wrenches and other implements caught the eyes of Andy and his crony.

Hiram White, an elderly man with a humped back who shambled around his wrenches and engine belts like Quasimodo amid the bells—sat at his desk, his head cocked toward a radio.

The tools are stored in metal lockboxes on the floor and include just about everything you'd need to rebuild the engine—vise grips, pry bar, hammer, crescent wrenches, pipe wrenches, socket wrenches, Allen wrenches, files, hacksaw, channel-lock pliers, bolt cutters, ball peen hammer.

He was studying a row of wrenches that hung neatly in a row on the aft bulkhead.

The Tuaregs, having no skills for handling tools and wrenches, had ignored any fixtures that were built in.

The civilians were clumsier, but they were only a step or two behind when the Slammers tore into the local thugs with pipes, wrenches, and lengths of reinforcing rod.

Power wrenches and occasionally a diamond saw tore the night like sonic lightning.