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How to use the word Screw in a Sentence? Page #2

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I could not go to the President and say, take two days off to get ready for that and screw the whole thing with North Korea, he's our President. He is going to negotiate, I believe, a non-nuclear situation on the Korean Peninsula. And you're going to interfere with that? That's why the Founding Fathers created this immunity from prosecution and subpoena.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We carefully drilled the bone away down to the dura, the linings of the brain, so that we could manipulate the screw.

Alan Cohen

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

As I’m older now, I can’t even fathom why Lorraine let me stay there, lots of times I think about, ‘Why did I do this? Why did I screw up my life like this?’ Sometimes I get angry thinking about it, how so much was taken away from me.

Judith Penney

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

John Wayne

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Opening a business is a' round-the-clock [ job ] … so White Gold Butchers figured if White Gold Butchers all had to be here [ on Sunday nights ], White Gold Butchers might as well show the show, white Gold Butchers are a super meaty place, and ‘ Game of Thrones ’ is super meaty, so White Gold Butchers said screw it, let’s make some large-format meat and watch the show.

Jocelyn Guest

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It wasn't any heavy sit-down rap about don't get in trouble. It was just about ability, man, orenthal James Simpson'd say,' You got so much ability.' And I really wanted to be a professional baseball or football player. The point that came through to me was : hey man, Willie was from Alabama where he had nothing. And he told me,' Just your ability can get you over. You got the ability. Don't screw it up, man.'.

Orenthal James Simpson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When you have 10 overage white guys looking at things, there's better than a 50/50 chance it's going to be a screw-up.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
6 years ago

If someone screws you, screw them back 10 times harder, at least they're going to leave you alone, and at least you'll feel good.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I tried not to think of the people who are obsessed with Jack Fawcett on 1925, it would get me panicked that I would screw it up... If I thought about it it'd destroy me.

James Gray

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I try to have my guys make lists that we can discuss at the end of the day, 'What did I do well?' 'What did I screw up?' 'How am I gonna learn from this tomorrow?' 'Who came in tonight?' 'What should we know about them?' That kinda thing.

Doug Quinn

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Ted Cruz people feel they can work within the status quo, trump people say screw the status quo, we're sick of it.

Ned Ryun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will screw up your posture and it messes up your natural stride and gait-- and all that’s a chain reaction, so eventually it affects your body really negatively.

David Siik

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I had them drive in and stop and shut the car off to look around, at that moment, I gave them the concerned parent/uncle speech. 'This is it. If you screw up, not wearing (a) seat belt, drink and drive, text, get distracted by music or friends, it's over! No second chances, no excuses, no retakes, no do-overs, no goodbyes. Dead.'.

Chris Blanchard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's no good it's no fair and they're not going to screw around with the Second Amendment.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It doesn’t matter whether they can cook because nowadays there are hundreds of production companies that know very well how to turn out a cooking show, for every steak that you see a starlet make on screen, there are five steaks being made in the prep cook kitchen behind the scenes to swap out in case they screw the one up on camera. It’s more important to be good at television than to be good at cooking.

Allen Salkin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They got the weapons -- Screw them, we got the Champagne!

Charlie Hebdo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For Fox Business, this is an important rite of passage, i don't want to screw it up.

Fox Business host Cavuto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For Fox Business, this is an important rite of passage, i don't want to screw Fox Business up.

Neil Cavuto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

how many ADHD kids does it take to screw in a light bulb..........want to ride bikes

liam mahone

added by liam09
8 years ago

[Renting] trucks and trailers is not a sexy business, you can provide the best service, but if you screw up the invoice and how you handle any damages with a client, forget about it—they won’t come back.

Mikel Elliott

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When people work, they eat out more often. Fast-food chains are the first to benefit because (people entering or returning to the workforce) are going to go for the more affordable stuff, it's hard to screw up breakfast ... everything goes well with bacon.

Malcolm Knapp

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You don't go into the theater of operations as a highly skilled professional with god-like powers and then suddenly one day, you know, have a screw loose, it just doesn't make sense.

Mary Vieten

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Spite is an underestimated quality in international relations, russia stood to gain basically nothing from playing the Kim Jong Un card. It was sort of a' screw you' policy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A leaky gut is bad because all these undesirable things go from the gut into the bloodstream, and they screw up the immune system.

Charles Mackay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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