How to Use pincer in a Sentence

pincer

noun

• 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
• 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
• With luck, the pincer will come free and bring with it the cartilage within the claw.
  — House Beautiful, 20 July 2012
• 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
• The assault from prices will be two-pronged, almost pincer-like.
  — Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022
• Their two front pincers can be used to attack prey and fend off predators.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But water doesn't have eight legs, pincers and a venomous bite.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 23 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The rubber crafts raced along either side of the fishing boat, squeezing it like a pincer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Forming a pincer around the capital, Russian troops planned to seize Kyiv in three to four days.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• Three fingers were gone, stubs now, his right hand a pincer of thumb and forefinger.
  — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Last year's bonfire was a giant crawfish with pincers that opened and closed.
  — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The other half of Britain’s household pincer is Brexit.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Scorpions can be a fear for many people due to their pincers, stingers and venom.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
• 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
• Near a campsite in Thailand, a hairy creature with brown pincers lurked under a rock.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Indeed, the pincer motion of Odontomachus ants is fully twice as rapid.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• So Wormwood this year got caught in a pincer that needs further exploration.
  — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• Just look at the robotic hands on this figure, with their pincer grips, like something from an assembly line.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2020
• The ant was shaking her thorax at him now, beckoning him closer with her pincers.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024