Sentence examples for tweezer from inspiring English sources
The word 'tweezer' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to a small tool consisting of two pointed arms joined at one end, used for picking up small objects or for plucking hairs. Example: She used a pair of tweezers to carefully remove the tiny splinter from her finger.
noun
A pair of tweezers, tweezers.
But the first application is particularly appropriate to a firm from a city built on the cattle industry: sorting bull semen.An optical tweezer works because a focused laser beam exerts a small force that is able to trap tiny particles at the beam's centre.
I took a shallow dish and poured in some Elmer's glue, and then I'd pick up the tee with a tweezer rather than my fingers, because that gives you more ability to position the tee.
(The company also sells a longer "tweezer tong" that can be used for plating or cooking).
Somehow plucking strays under a mirror not your own feels less awkward when your tweezer is as stylish as your outfit.
They should be carefully removed with a tweezer without crushing them by pulling gently and steadily near the mouth.
"Physics of the Future" has few sentences so bad that you can tweezer them, like splinters from your toe, and put them on display.
The same painting shows a craftsman with a blowpipe in his mouth holding a small object over a fire with a tweezer-like instrument about eight to 10 inches long.
Spring-back, or tweezer-like, tongs were the model used by the early ironsmith.
Pivoted tongs, with short jaws and a long handle, have quite a mechanical advantage over tweezer-like tongs.
That's because his latest trip involves sampling "new Nordic cuisine", which on the plate looks rather like nouvelle cuisine reimagined by tweezer-wielders with a fetish for local produce.
Caught among the "tweezer-tongued harpies" who also serve the empress, she remarks ruefully, "The more perceptive one is, the more difficult life at court inevitably turns out to be".
