pincers

Example Sentences

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Agility’s Digit robot, with its rectangular eyes and pincers for hands, looks a little more like science fiction and a little less like a human replacement.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Robot arms tend to be equipped with two- or three-pronged pincers or with suction cups.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner group’s founder, said, “The pincers are closing.”

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023

In a video posted on Telegram, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the paramilitary group Wagner, on Friday said that "pincers are closing in" around Bakhmut.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2023

Merry was trapped: another crack had closed about his waist; his legs lay outside, but the rest of him was inside a dark opening, the edges of which gripped like a pair of pincers.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien