Sentence examples for pliers for from inspiring English sources

A multicoloured feather duster becomes Captain Flint's parrot, with a pair of pliers for the beak.

Pulleys, blocks of wood, voltometers and pliers (for the finger nails) are not instruments which should be used on the human body in the 21st century.

A parrot made out of a feather duster has a pair of pliers for a beak; cormorants are rustled out of black bin bags.

As the men finished preparing their kayaks, checking their fish finders and securing lip grippers and pliers for pulling out hooks, they compared gear and talked about different kayak brands.

Buy a standard pair and needle-nose, and add a pair of 12-inch slip-joint pliers, for times when you need maximum torque or a wide mouth (think pipes).

When she refused to consummate the marriage, her in-laws locked her in a basement, where they burned her with hot wires, pulled out her fingernails and twisted her skin with pliers for months.

Signal data of the CEL files were sketched, normalized, and summarized with the PLIER method for exon-level intensities and with the Iter-PLIER for gene-level intensities using the Affymetrix Expression Console.

The Affymetrix Power Tools software package (Affymetrix) was used to quantile normalize the probe fluorescence intensities and to summarize the probe set (representing exon expression) and meta-probe set (representing gene expression) intensities using a probe logarithmic intensity error model (PLIER [57]) for probe set and ITER-PLIER for meta-probe set.

Specialty pliers used for canvas stretching.

Cut the memory wire with pliers made for memory wire.

Hemostats, or small medical pliers intended for clamping, are an excellent choice if available.