How do you use Screwed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Screwed meaning
- Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
- Intoxicated.
Using Screwed
- The main meaning on this page is: Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger. | Intoxicated.
- In the example corpus, screwed often appears in combinations such as: screwed up, me screwed, got screwed.
Context around Screwed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Screwed
- In this selection, "screwed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, getting, anything, totally, together and down stand out and add context to how "screwed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a very screwed up election and and i screwed up my. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "screwed" sits close to words such as albanian, alienated and apologies, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with screwed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Alabama Vikings – getting screwed by Cousins. (6 words)
Irsay really has screwed up that franchise pretty good. (9 words)
If your furnace repair cost $6,000, you got screwed. (10 words)
By 2016, Americans were starting to figure out that they’d been screwed — and that Hillary Clinton’s husband had been in on it by continuing Reagan’s policies and doubling-down on free trade — and were loudly demanding change. (40 words)
In any case, I look forward to the NFL not adopting this technology in time to prevent the Bears being screwed by a bad spot somehow. (26 words)
And I think they really figured out rapidly that they had screwed up in a major way, and it was not a good look. (24 words)
Looks like Officer Ice screwed the pooch on that one! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was a very screwed up election, no wonder it had such a screwed up result.
Alabama Vikings – getting screwed by Cousins.
And I think they really figured out rapidly that they had screwed up in a major way, and it was not a good look.
But on a sad note, she is not the first woman to be screwed by Busulwa as we shall reveal in our subsequent publication.
But they DID learn "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey" - key intelligence for opening anything screwed together.
By 2016, Americans were starting to figure out that they’d been screwed — and that Hillary Clinton’s husband had been in on it by continuing Reagan’s policies and doubling-down on free trade — and were loudly demanding change.
He even shared some advice that he “totally screwed up” once he got onto the show.
He has used them, screwed them over and made their lives infinitely more painful and difficult — even as they defend him.
He screwed up a championship level team by sticking with the wrong QB—I believe the meddling GM was responsible for that, too.
He told a court: 'I got into the coffin at a motorway service station at Steenvoorde, northern France and then it was screwed down.
If your furnace repair cost $6,000, you got screwed.
I’m feeling pretty good right now because I haven’t screwed up yet,” she added.
In any case, I look forward to the NFL not adopting this technology in time to prevent the Bears being screwed by a bad spot somehow.
I pushed through a comics deadline and I screwed up my hands.
Irsay really has screwed up that franchise pretty good.
It’s hard to tell who’s more screwed by the new politics of fear.
Jimmy G, who has notoriously has been offered free sex for life in Sin City, would be getting screwed in a very different way.
Joeli Brearley, CEO and founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, said the latest data is “mortifying”.
Just because this is leisure time shit doesn't mean they deserve to get screwed over.
Looks like Officer Ice screwed the pooch on that one!
Common combinations with screwed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- screwed up 46×
- me screwed 18×
- got screwed 12×
- screwed over 11×
- screwed by 9×
- been screwed 8×
- he screwed 8×
- getting screwed 7×
- and screwed 6×
- get screwed 6×