Sentence examples for a vise on from inspiring English sources

It was like a vise on her head, just over her eyes.

But it would put a vise on "discretionary" spending, meaning everything else, from national parks to the Education Department to visa offices.

The explanation is that the gripping tool called a "vise" on this side of the Atlantic is a "vice" on the other.

You can put a vise on it and it won't matter.

The Senate Republicans, a bulwark of the state Republican machinery that has held a vise grip on that chamber for decades, look on this year's election with greater fear than they have felt since the 1970's.

Or they are strapped on tables with some body part clamped into a vise for an invasive needle.

Democrats have had a vise lock on Hawaii's politics for 40 years.

The drill is held in a rotating spindle and is fed into the workpiece, which is usually clamped in a vise resting on a table.

I had had it with the High Sparrow a religious hard-liner with a vise grip on power, smugly claiming to be a man of the people and I had had it with that whole tedious plot.

But no matter how hard the Pentagon may try to keep a vise grip on what we can say – and what evidence we can see – now nobody but Abu Wa'el owns his story.

"They have a vise grip on the neighborhood, and we are going to release that grip this morning," Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese of the Los Angeles Police Department said, referring to the Rolling 40s street gang.