wrench

To tune a piano, Mitchell uses a wrench to turn metal tuning pins attached to the strings.

Hillary Clinton, he argues, throws a wrench into the system.

Presently he dropped his hammer, and fussed about for a moment with a tiny wrench.

Now the government of President François Hollande is throwing a wrench into the American rush toward peace with Iran.

Factories were hiring anyone who could breathe and turn a wrench.

And you know what could really throw a monkey wrench into the whole effort?

Here the Dimbula shot down a hollow, lying almost on her side—righting at the bottom with a wrench and a spasm.

It may be that, having made up my mind before leaving England, I accomplished a final wrench and adjustment.

I fancy it was pretty well turned, and that made the wrench during the small hours the more severe.

Let them not seek to wrench the affections from the channel in which they flowed, when fresh from their source.

Presently the cords were tightened, by means of a wrench, without the pressure causing much pain to the young Reformer.