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Example sentences for: screwed
How can you use “screwed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Having screwed up his first term by misjudging the public demand for reform in the far less difficult area of health care, the president would be foolish to present a costly multipoint program on race.
But your left arm's cramping;a dire tautness above your right ear;your jaw's screwed tight as a dill picklejar.
I found the basic setup--that Michael has no inkling of Gina's family ties--implausible, since where I come from you don't ask a woman to marry you (you don't even get past the first date) until you've explained to her the ways in which your family screwed you up and have expressed tender sympathy for the ways in which her family did likewise.
The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.
Because English speakers seem to have our heads screwed on backwards, they constantly misperceive their bodies.