vise
Example Sentences
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A vise clamped around my chest, my heart thrashing inside.
From Literature
That relief vanished a moment later when I spotted Salzburg clutching Regan’s arm in a vise grip.
From Literature
When she contracted Asian flu, the virus paralyzed her with “a vise cluster of migraines.”
From Los Angeles Times
The risk: “It will further tighten the fiscal vise,” Gourinchas writes.
From Barron's
State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
