tongs

Example Sentences

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Sinchi hung the iron kettle over the roaring fire using tongs, then joined the others around the flames.

From Literature

With a pair of kitchen tongs, Simon lifted the cannibal book from a vat of bubbling liquid that sat upon a makeshift stove, fashioned out of Bunsen burners from the Swanburne laboratory.

From Literature

At that same moment, Scarlett moved towards her dad, perhaps in a bid to grab the tongs, and ran on to the blade, Ms Hall says.

From BBC

Ms Hall had told police and paramedics she had got the knife out to cut garlic bread and placed them next to some tongs.

From BBC

Oliver James, another flatmate who is studying zoology, transferred the scorpion into a plastic container with kitchen tongs.

From BBC