Then rapidly Max selected two pairs of rails, one pair on the up-line and one on the down-line, and the dozen greatspanners were quickly at work.
The bolts and nuts which held the rails together were attacked instead, and, although no spanners were available, the men managed, by dint of much persuasion from the iron bars and their bayonets, to get the nuts to turn.
Without misadventure he reached Aix, and purchased a dozen spanners similar to those used by plate-layers, except that the handles were short and lacked the great leverage necessary for their work.
Let's go up with spanners and shovels, and kill 'em all," shouted the crew.
They laid a soaked singlet upon his head with a couple of iron spanners under it, and then sat down to watch the effect.
There should be some of thespanners in that locker, Mr. Austin.
The spanners would be pulled out from their sockets on the side of the tank by means of steel cables, which were operated from within.
Suppose the spannersbreak when you're halfway over, Tom?
Take those spanners back to the tool room in Power Section, and then get back to your quarters.
He had the feeling that everything was all wrong, somehow, and that any use of stun guns or spanners would just make everything worse.
A seaman would have made a standard pattern with one or twospanners to fit the whole number.
The deck-plates and shafts were of various sizes, involving the use of a large number of spanners to fit them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spanners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
