Pincers Sentence Examples

Heavy duty pincers or pliers are suitable for cutting snare wire.

By the crushing action of their pincers, and an alternate backward and forward movement, they bring the soft blood-holding tissues of the victim close to the minute pin-hole aperture which is the scorpion's mouth.

He was torn in pieces with red-hot pincers - the torture lasting an entire day - while Margherita was burned at a slow fire.

Even though Ebirah doesn't have any super powers, his strong pincers, tough exoskeleton and swift swimming abilities make him a formidable foe.

He is in fact represented as an idealized Greek craftsman, with the hammer, and sometimes the pincers.

The rolls thus both draw the piece forward like the pincers of a wire die, and themselves are a die which like a river ever renews or rather maintains its fixed shape and position, though its particles themselves are moving constantly forward with " the piece " which is passing between them.

They have two huge pincers at the front plus four hairy legs on either side.

Bonfinius describes a Hungarian battle formation called the scorpion where infantry formed its body and the warwagons and cavalry formed the pincers.

Thoracic limbs lack pincers, branched and fringed with hairs, and mainly used for swimming.

In the large pincers, one claw becomes larger and fatter, and more solid for crushing.

However St Dunstan spotted the cloven hooves beneath the dress, and grabbed the devil's nose with his red hot pincers!

The palps are always greatly enlarged, with the terminal segments modified into strong pincers used for catching and crushing prey.

The palps are developed into strong pincers equipped with sharp teeth and spines, which are used for catching and crushing prey.

Great efforts were made to obtain mercy for the accused, but the crime was considered too heinous, and the pope (Clement VIII.) refused to grant a pardon; on the i ith of September 1599, Beatrice and Lucrezia were beheaded, and Giacomo, after having been tortured with redhot pincers, was killed with a mace, drawn and quartered.

The chief industries of Homeric times are those of the carpenter (TEKro v),, the worker in leather (oKVTaroµos), the smith or worker in metal (XaXKeus) - whose implements are the hammer and pincers - and the potter (Kepa,ueis); also spinning and weaving, which were carried on by the women.

Apart from these characteristics, the most distinctive feature of earwigs is the presence at the end of the abdomen of a pair of pincers which are in reality modified appendages, known as cercopods, and represent the similar limbs of Japyx and the caudal feelers of Campodea and some other insects.

In the male, moreover, the pincers are caliper-like and toothed at the base, whereas in the female they are untoothed and only lightly curved at the tip. These differences suggest that the pincers aid in the pairing of the sexes.

These are generally species of the genus Penaeus (like P. caramote of the Mediterranean) which are distinguished from all those already mentioned by having pincers on the first three, instead of only on the first two pairs of legs.

This in turn is because the direct pull of the pincers on the protruding end of the wire is much stronger than the forward-drawing pull due to the friction of the cold rolls on the wire, which is necessarily cold because of its small section.

The length and armature of the pincers and the presence or absence of wings are perhaps the most important features used by systematists in distinguishing the various kinds.

In at least one genus the unjointed pincers of the forceps are preceded, in the youngest instar by jointed cerci.