How to Use pincer movement in a Sentence

pincer movement

noun

• Moscow tried to seize the area in a pincer movement in the early days of the war and into the summer.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• Making a pincer movement with his hands, Tymchuk demonstrated how Allied forces closed in on all sides on the Germans.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• The initial battle plan appeared to involve a pincer movement.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• Beijing is attacking the world order in a pincer movement.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• It’s a regional pincer movement, which is a bigger driver of the current discussion on Beacon Hill than any tax revenue the state is missing out on.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
• Such pincer movement might provide Pelosi with leverage to extract greater concessions.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• The Ukrainians are located in a north-south crescent between deep Russian lines in the southeastern Donbas region, and a potential pincer movement to their west.
  — Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2022
• As his platoon approached a Russian position near the town of Zolota Balka along the river, the Ukrainians simultaneously attacked each flank in a pincer movement.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• Alibaba’s problems are a combination of the effects of China’s slowing growth and a political pincer movement that has crushed the country’s tech sector for nearly two years.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
• The immediate purpose of this giant pincer movement was the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• Neoliberalism could be analogized to a large pincer movement, of which one prong is globalization and the other financialization, with neither able to function successfully without the other.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
• The two most extensive invasion scenarios would involve a simultaneous attack from multiple sides — a maneuver known as a pincer movement or double envelopment.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024