Sentence examples for some tongs from inspiring English sources

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A stethoscope and some tongs and a blood-pressure cuff lay on the doctor's desk.

Get some tongs, a plate and your steaks.

Dip the squash into the egg using either some tongs or your fingers.

Add approximately 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of salt and, with a paper towel bunched up and held in some tongs (Caution: Hot Iron), use the paper towel and the salt to scour the bottom and sides of the pan, until the brown bits are gone (the salt will be dirty).

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Leave some slices of lemon on a pretty plate, with some dainty tongs for selecting.

You can pick them out carefully, perhaps using some kitchen tongs, or a slotted spoon.

What if he's in trouble with the Chinese mob — some ruthless tong that has ensnared him in who knows what sort of nefarious activity?

There's also, so I'm told, the embarrassing bit in a certain class of establishment where they drape the napkin over your lap with some little silver tongs – so intimate!

In 1957, frustrated by the expense and unremovability of European pitons, the spikes one pounds into the wall to secure a rope, Chouinard bought a used forge, an anvil, and some hammers and tongs and taught himself how to be a blacksmith.

The survey also noted some oak dog tongs, likely to be from the 19th century, and three 17th-century chairs.

Startlingly green and invitingly pretty, nettles can sting — hence the plastic bags and tongs some farmers include near the baskets — and were often pulled as unwanted weeds before chefs started putting them on their menus.

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