The word "pliers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun in a sentence to refer to a type of tool consisting of two metal arms connected with a pivot, used for gripping and cutting. Example: I used the pliers to cut the wire.
Up on the roof of the stand to his right, a bloke with a pair of pliers and some electrical tape, shouted into a mobile phone at the other man looking up at him from the pitch below.
He reached in with his pliers and began wrenching at my healthy, young, firmly planted tooth.
Four hours of solid stitching later – of slippery hands and yelling at instructions, of holding the needle with pliers because sewing through three layers of shoe leather is basically like pushing a buffalo carcass through a catflap – and the name Simple Way started to look like a sarcastic threat.
The needle came out, my mouth was numbed, then the silent assistant stood behind me and gripped me in a headlock as the dentist reached in with his pliers and pulled, left, right, left, right, left right… I sat in a state of swimmy shock, zooming between the present day and my traumatic memories of the 80s.
For the same reason, I am uncomfortable about GTA's torture scene, where you extract information, along with a tooth, with a pair of pliers.
Time was, he says nostalgically, when household equipment came with the expectation that the owner could and would wield the tools required to fix it: a wrench, pliers, screwdriver and hammer were all that was needed to keep an early Ford automobile on the road.
"In the old days you could leave your door open," says Ms Chambers, who writes stories about men who use pliers to remove people's teeth before setting them on fire.Unsurprisingly, biographies cast the villains in a benign light.
Mr Ramadorai, who learnt mathematics at his father's knee and earned degrees in physics, electronics and computer science, was not above picking up a screwdriver or pliers.
He says that during his time as a guest of Pakistan's security services he was beaten with staves and rubber tubing and had three fingernails prised off with pliers.
In one cell, a length of rubber hose still lies next to a pair of pliers; it is one of the most haunted places I have ever been.
He would stretch the H-section lead strips, or cames, to stop "creep" in the soft, ductile metal; cut them expertly straight with his pliers, so as to leave no gaps between them when they were moulded round the glass pieces; apply the hot chisel-tip of the soldering iron just long enough to melt the solder, not the lead, when joining the strips together.
