Sentence examples for long tongs from inspiring English sources

Two men in their 20s, Monir and Saiful, were perched on the rim of a tank, wielding long tongs to pull blue whole skins from a stew of sodium metabisulphite and ammonium chloride.

Each boat's two-man crew was collecting oysters the same way their great-grandfathers did: One man stood on the gunwale with long tongs clawing up mouthfuls of bay mud.

Whedon, who surely is a big superhero fan, is therefore able to take it more seriously—he finds more imaginative exhilaration, feeling, and importance in superhero movies than those who work on them with long tongs.

The counter clerk, wielding long tongs, pokes at piles of char-grilled tri-tips, sensing the proper springiness to the meat before wrapping it up.

Dip the towel in vegetable or olive oil and use long tongs to spread the oil over the grate.

Use oven mitts or hot pads and long tongs when removing corn from boiling or steaming water to avoid burns.

Using two-foot-long tongs we transfer the live crabs to a pot and rinse them off under cold water.

While Wellfleet oysters are mostly farmed from tiny seeds set on racks in the intertidal zone at the edges of the bays, many gulf oysters still grow in reefs, and fishermen go out in flat-bottomed boats to pry them loose with 16-foot-long tongs.

Nathan Hawkins slithered into a shallow crawl space beneath a home in North Texas, armed only with a flashlight, a pair of long snake tongs and a cellphone camera.

The first thing I saw, walking up the steep stone steps to the Rossgates' house, was a fiendish circle of flames leaping out of the enormous mouth of the pizza oven, and Bruce, with a bottle of cold white wine and a pair of long iron tongs, waiting for me in a deck chair.

But the music got its visceral drive from two-headed South Asian drums, those played with hands (dholak) and sticks (dhol), and from Mr. Lohar's instrument, the chimta: long metal tongs with tambourinelike jingles, clinking and chattering like a syncopated rattlesnake.