How to Use pincer in a Sentence
pincer
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There’s the snap-trap, where two groups of arms extend like a pincer around the prey.
—Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
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For the claws, bend the lower smaller pincer shell on the claw from side to side and then pull it away from the claw.
—House Beautiful, 20 July 2012
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With luck, the pincer will come free and bring with it the cartilage within the claw.
—House Beautiful, 20 July 2012
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Fish eat some of the creatures that eat coral, while crabs and shrimp use their pincers to protect their coral homes.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
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The assault from prices will be two-pronged, almost pincer-like.
—Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022
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Their two front pincers can be used to attack prey and fend off predators.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
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Meat racks, umiak frames and the occasional pincer of whale bones poked out of the snow dunes.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
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But water doesn't have eight legs, pincers and a venomous bite.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 23 Aug. 2019
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Then the flood from Main Street took out her front door, squeezing her in a pincer of rushing currents.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
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The rubber crafts raced along either side of the fishing boat, squeezing it like a pincer.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
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Forming a pincer around the capital, Russian troops planned to seize Kyiv in three to four days.
—Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
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Three fingers were gone, stubs now, his right hand a pincer of thumb and forefinger.
—Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
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The team discovered that in snapping shrimp colonies with just one queen, that queen tends to lay more eggs and have a smaller pincer.
—National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2018
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Your toddler will love pulling the pipe cleaners out and trying to lace them through again, which helps strengthen hands and work on the pincer grasp.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
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Last year's bonfire was a giant crawfish with pincers that opened and closed.
—Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
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The other half of Britain’s household pincer is Brexit.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
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But that returns us to Rottenborn’s list of all the pincer movements that close in on abuse victims.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022
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In the tunnels and on the dusty earth, termites fell by the score and warrior ants lost limbs and perished under the pincer shear of terrible mandibles.
—William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2017
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Scorpions can be a fear for many people due to their pincers, stingers and venom.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
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The result was perfectly weird, a crab-looking thing with pincers, bird claws, and a flames coming out of its head.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
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Near a campsite in Thailand, a hairy creature with brown pincers lurked under a rock.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
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Try to get pincers with a flat spatula design in order to smooth moss out over a surface.
—Kevin Espiritu For Partselect.com, Good Housekeeping, 29 Aug. 2017
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Indeed, the pincer motion of Odontomachus ants is fully twice as rapid.
—Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
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Even the familiar tales in this book are gripping—wooden ships in the pincers of an ice floe, flickering oil lamps, thin air.
—Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
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That same type of reinforcement is found in the pincers of some modern beetles that contain zinc or iron.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
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So Wormwood this year got caught in a pincer that needs further exploration.
—Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
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Just look at the robotic hands on this figure, with their pincer grips, like something from an assembly line.
—Washington Post, 9 July 2020
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The ant was shaking her thorax at him now, beckoning him closer with her pincers.
—Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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The core action of CLAW is mimicked by the interface, with a sliding pincer as the central component.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2022
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Van der Meiden tells the AFP that the stinger pattern could also be related to how each species uses its pincers to ward off predators.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
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