Sentence examples for like a clamp from inspiring English sources

"Cristina acted like a clamp around Scioli's neck.

The sturdy thumb helps to act like a clamp when digits three, four, and five grasp the opposite side of a tree branch.

Do you really want to go back to waiting hours to be seen?" The band around my arm fills with air and squeezes me like a clamp.

As we continue alongside the narrator while he fumbles to maintain the guise of a normal life both for himself and those around him, that sense of something wrong slowly grows, and the gap between what we know and what we don't know tightens, like a clamp around the neck.

Thus the structure serves more like a clamp in light of DNA binding.

MutS then changes shape and encircles the DNA like a clamp that can slide along the DNA.

Another car was literally wrapped around a tree, like a C-clamp, its front and rear bumpers pointing in the same direction.

Amina stood on a wooden box with a clamp like a giant paper clip at her waist, and tried not to cry.

The other night, after watching my chef boyfriend deftly unfurl the curled talons of a headless chicken, slice it up, and then add ginger sauce, I had a nightmare that I was at a chicken slaughterhouse watching chickens get their necks broken by a brutish man wielding a clamp like a giant clothespin made of metal.

Normally, the motor has two clamp bolts that fit over the top of the transom and tighten against it like a "C" clamp.

The ship clings to the edge of the atoll like a rusted clamp, its metal flank striped with light.