Sentence examples for tweezers from inspiring English sources

With his other hand he uses what looks like an enormous set of iron tweezers (known as a jack) to draw out strands of glass.

She is also credited with coining the term 'bug', after a problem with the Harvard Mark I: "Finally, someone located the trouble spot and, using ordinary tweezers, removed the problem, a two-inch moth," she recalled.

If it were possible to move the components around using optical tweezers, and put them directly on to a base, that would open up a completely different approach to the problem and might, ultimately, result in a new manufacturing technology.It has to be said that this is a long shot.

He describes the newspapers as though he were holding them with a pair of tweezers well away from his nose, to lessen the offensive aroma.

He plucks a wren with tweezers (one of many roadkill samples squirrelled away in his freezer), and in order to verify why vultures have evolved with featherless heads (and long necks) he dunks feathers into a bowl of dead bullfrogs then blasts them with a hairdryer.

In Japan, where boys increasingly seem to want to look like girls, hair dyes (along with eyebrow tweezers) are big business.

There is a man making a living as a female dancer, who decides to abandon tweezers and asks Mr Mehta to teach him to shave.

PACK a pair of tweezers on you as you pass through airport security, and a gang of screeners surrounds you.

They still need to be finished to eat with a pair of Georgia Chopsticks right off the Americus line you would need tweezers in your other hand and a high pain tolerance.

And given the size of the objects being moved, they have become known as optical tweezers.

That is about to change, though, for a Chicago-based firm called Arryx has found a way to control thousands of these tweezers simultaneously.