Sentence examples for vise-like grip from inspiring English sources

Vines, as much as six inches thick, encircle the tree trunks in a vise-like grip.

Totalitarianism had the Soviet Union and the Eastern European satellite states in a vise-like grip.

Having established a vise-like grip over his once war-torn republic, Mr. Kadyrov has built up a remarkable record of impunity.

But compared with Windows, which Microsoft holds in a vise-like grip, Ethernet is technology that followed a different, communal path.

"When we slowed down the video, we noticed that Ann was squeezing Mitt's right knee with what appears to be a vise-like grip," Dr. Logsdon says.

All those reforms would require the party to ease its vise-like grip on levers that it uses to control the economy and dispense political favors.

Yet it's not clear that Trump's less-than-vise-like grip on reality permits him to even grasp this.

The media will inevitably focus on the personalities of the bloated roster of narcissists lusting after the White House, but scant attention will be paid to the Wall Street bankers, industrial polluters, and casino magnates whose grip on American democracy will remain vise-like.

This is a serious warning, folks, about the dangerous vise-like properties of certain toilet seats.

Arden, the older of the two, is thick and squat, five feet eleven and two hundred and seventy pounds, with a handshake like a vise grip.

As for her mother, she'd been a strict Presbyterian with a mouth like a vise grip, who despised poetry and was unlikely to have been influenced by anything softer than a granite wall.