Sentence examples for pincers from inspiring English sources

The pistol shrimp, Alpheus, which grows to 3.5 cm (1.4 inches), stuns prey by snapping together the fingers of the large chelae, or pincers.

New France was caught in cruelly closing pincers.

He first faces and grasps the female, using his pincers (pedipalps).

Many have powerful venoms to compensate for their small pincers.

In crabs there is a single obvious pair of chelae, but in some of the prawns there may be up to three pairs of less conspicuous pincers.

The Romans sharpened the jaws of tongs to create cutters and pincers.

Although they were originally a carpenter's tool, pincers became a principal tool of the farrier because old nails had to be pulled from horses' hooves before new shoes could be fitted and nailed on.

The pincers were useful for pulling bent nails because of the leverage they were capable of exerting.

The intervention of the former US president, metropolitan Westminster types such as David Cameron and a lobby of Irish-Americans in the policing and justice debate over recent days will be perceived by many in the unionist community as a bullying pincer movement.

Sometimes, the threats come like pincer movements with all angles covered.

He warned that Scotland was now in danger of being caught in "a classic pincer movement" between "a Tory party that wants to cut Scotland out of the UK budget and the SNP that wants to cut Scotland out of UK taxes", referring to the SNP's flagship policy of full fiscal autonomy, which would see Scotland having complete control over it own taxation and spending.