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Examples

  • Things like "Hammers, wrenches, and giant phillips-head screws about thirty centimeters across were scattered here and there on the shelves.".

    Bad Translation Makes Kittens Sad Big Jim 2010

  • Things like "Hammers, wrenches, and giant phillips-head screws about thirty centimeters across were scattered here and there on the shelves.".

    Archive 2010-06-01 Big Jim 2010

  • I look around self consciously waiting for applause and admiring glances, then put a piece of clean gauze and a band-aid on the spilling words as though that misdirection will stop the hemorrhage from the star shaped phillips-head screwdriver wound deep deep in my heart.

    Fan Letter to Natalie Goldberg 2010

  • May 8, 2007 at 3:16 pm reel tek cats got phillips-head CLAWZ

    HELPER CAT IS HELPING - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Drill-Driver (with 1/8″ bit, 3/8″ bit, and phillips-head driver)

    Blogtimore, Hon 2010

  • Drill-Driver (with 1/8″ bit, 3/8″ bit, and phillips-head driver)

    Blogtimore, Hon 2010

  • She would love a full-size comforter in the same favorite colors and needs a set of two or three phillips-head screwdrivers.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

  • Assuming I can just buy a garden-variety phillips-head screw, what's the specified size?

    Ask MetaFilter 2009

  • Sports extremely fast changeover times, especially from flat-head to phillips-head, without sorting through bits that fall on the floor or easily get lost.

    Baltiblogs 2009

  • It’s like your dad and his phillips-head screwdriver: if you lose it, he becomes insanely enraged, yet he has no personal identification with it.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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