Sentence examples for like a vice from inspiring English sources

The phrase "like a vice" can be used in written English.
It is used to describe how tightly something is held or gripped, or how strongly an emotion, such as fear, is felt. For example: He held the keys in his hand like a vice.

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Trump has said he would like a vice president with experience in Congress, "somebody that can help me with legislation".

It used to be that it felt like a vice.

The piece shone and gripped like a vice.

At times the speech was like a vice principal's lecture to an unruly middle school classroom.

By the final chapters, tension grips like a vice, and you're still reading at 3am.

"You do sometimes get avid collectors, and collecting can be like a vice in a way.

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I also have a sneaking liking for a "vice cops are the ultimate in corruption" plotline if only because it's a staple of such crime classics as Joseph Waumbaugh's The Choirboys and James Ellroy's LA Quartet.

He looks like a Vice-President".

"Spoken like a vice-presidential nominee," quipped Bernie Kohn of Bloomberg News.

That's what it's going to be like," said Michael J. Petrilli, a vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy group in Washington.

My head was like in a vice.

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