How to Use monkey wrench in a Sentence

monkey wrench

noun

• Prepare for your birth plan to get a monkey wrench thrown in it.
  — Jessica Delfino, SELF, 23 May 2018
• Then, in his second year on the job, Culp got thrown a monkey wrench in the form of the coronavirus.
  — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
• Not so with meme stocks, the latest monkey wrench thrown into the grooved gears of Wall Street.
  — George Schultze, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Way to throw a monkey wrench into spring break plans, Megabus.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2023
• Throw in the monkey wrench that is a new playoff format which is, well, whack.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
• Let those who the monkey wrench is affecting most have a less stressful time of it and be kinder.
  — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• His top status is tenuous, and the results in Iowa could throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing for the 78-year-old.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2020
• It’s like someone threw a monkey wrench into the whole system.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2021
• The Gamecocks threw a monkey wrench into the plans of one playoff contender already last week.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
• The only monkey wrench was that Portland had a long emotional game the night before.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2022
• High-tech cars are throwing a monkey wrench in the auto repair business.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
• COVID-19 shutdowns threw a monkey wrench into the tax system.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2020
• Which, from Phil’s point-of-view, kind of throws a monkey wrench into their manly cowboy paradise.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• The hot trolling bite was tossed a monkey wrench on Thursday, though, as northeast winds provoked small craft warnings on the big waters.
  — cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Losing the Amargosa would throw a monkey wrench in the plans of Susan Sorrells, who owns Shoshone — the bar, restaurant, motel and houses — and 2,000 acres around it.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• The one thing throwing a monkey wrench in all of this is the Collective Bargaining Agreement expires Dec. 1.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• White Cap’s cocktail menu, at least for the moment, is tool-themed: Drinks are named, for example, after a drill press, a monkey wrench and — of course — a screwdriver.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
• The injury to Samuel Umtiti has thrown a monkey wrench into Ernesto Valverde’s center back rotation.
  — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• The recent news of rampant inflation may be throwing a monkey wrench into your plans.
  — Winnie Sun, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• The man threatened her with a tennis racket and the woman reached into her vehicle and grabbed a monkey wrench to protect herself.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2019
• If the intent of the perpetrators is to throw a monkey wrench in U.S. foreign policy and get away with it, so far that mission has been accomplished.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2018
• Now, reality has gone and thrown a monkey wrench in that nice and simple explanation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2022
• This naturally throws a big-time monkey wrench into any plans Lawrence may have to reconcile with Issa.
  — Essence, 23 Dec. 2021
• For one thing, there’s the individual-mandate repeal, which may or may not throw a monkey wrench into the entire system.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Dec. 2017
• In other words, the Bolton revelations have thrown a monkey wrench into the Senate's proceedings.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2020
• Construction crews in the Pacific Northwest know how to get the job done in any weather, but some seasonal surprises can throw a monkey wrench into the works.
  — oregonlive, 27 July 2022
• The likely cancellation of Seattle’s postponed game against Tri-City throws a monkey wrench into the exact math, but 2nd is clearly Portland’s to lose.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2021
• Serious bummer that the dramatic change of course in your friend’s love life has thrown a monkey wrench in your occasional double-date-night routine.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2019
• But a severe outbreak of avian influenza killed millions of hens this year, throwing a monkey wrench into production.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• His trade demand, however, appears to have thrown a monkey wrench into extension talks.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2018

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