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How to use pincer in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pincer? Here are some examples.

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It also had a tail adorned by a pincer with spikes on the inside of the mandibles.
The Viking army, led by Harald Hardrada of Norway, charged into battle and trapped the English in a pincer movement.
The Afrikakorps was caught in a pincer between landing invasion forces advancing from the east and the Eighth Army still marching westwards.
Its downfall echoed much of the telecom sector in that it was caught in the pincer grip of a fall in business activity and too much debt, courtesy of its acquisition binge.
This was taken out by a pincer, with the carriers and infantry of vanguard doing very excellent work.
The crabs twitched and blew frothy bubbles, showing off their freshness with an occasional contraction of a pincer, as they lolled numbly in a shallow ice-filled tray.
Roemer lost his reelection bid because he got caught in a pincer move between a crook and Klansman.
Down below, tiny fiddler crabs raced along the mud, the males each waving an oversized pincer as minnows and larger fish riffled the water's surface.
The first case of VTE was in a 28-year-old female who underwent left hip arthroscopy, and cam and pincer osteoplasty with labral repair.
Miss Lovely is like an all-out pincer attack that is controlled and perfectly directed.
The US troops near Argentan were ordered to withdraw, which ended the pincer movement by the XV Corps.
A pair of crows were walking around the trap, planning the axes of advance for a pincer attack on its frantic occupant.
Congress and the local governments shall push the pincer attack on Charter Change, gathering force behind the mandate of the people,'' she said.
Watson, caught by both Mako Vunipola and Farrell in that early pincer tackle, was replaced by Ollie Devoto.
If so, he believed that any enemy force emerging from the forest would be vulnerable to a pincer attack and destroyed.
The NGOs have become an indispensable arm of the UN one-worlders in the global pincer attack against the United States.
Lone Pine was the launching pad for the new August offensive, with new mainly British troops, landing at Suvla Bay for a pincer attack against Chunuk Bair.
It is being strangled to death in a coordinated pincer attack.
In June, French planners agreed that a separate, smaller force would be sent to Scotland to try and gain Jacobite support, and crush British resistance in a pincer movement.
The runners up are PINCER MOVEMENT from S Moseley of Tamworth and DRESSED TO KILL from R Gaynor of Sutton Coldfield.
Examples from Classical Literature
He stood aside, with the globular weapon of the ray in a pincer hand.
The operation came 10 weeks after the bigger, bloodier Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, and pushed German troops into a closing Allied pincer movement.
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