Sentence examples for like a vise from inspiring English sources

The pain is described as "crushing," "compressing," and "like a vise" and is often associated with some difficulty in breathing.

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

Lantern jaw set like a vise, this is of course Charlton Heston.

The simplest of these devices, introduced by Bridgman in the 1930s, employs two tapered anvils that squeeze the sample like a vise.

He was squeezing his eyes shut so tight that his hands, which were pressing his shaved head, looked like a vise.

In her first season, she persuaded the Met's administration to reject some aluminum-framed Japanese wigs for "Madama Butterfly" that squeezed the head like a vise.

Do you sometimes say things like, "My head feels like it's in a vise," or, "My heart is banging out of my chest," or, "My blood is boiling"?

These features are things like a good vise or two, being a face vise or an end vise.

Andy can't help that he's been gifted with the ability to communicate with other people without feeling like he's got a vise cradling his skull and a bowling ball nestling in his stomach.

A tool called a job backer is like a giant vise: It clamps books in place for the rounding and backing process, which provides a curve to the front edge of the pages in a book.

"I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise.