vise
Example Sentences
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State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Koufax created a vise between his middle finger and the knuckle on his ring finger.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024
It’s no cause for alarm, but it felt as if a vise were being twisted tighter and tighter around my chest.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
Wall Street dropped after big U.S. companies delivered a mixed set of profit reports and rising Treasury yields tightened the vise further on the stock market.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
There’s a hazy blur to my thoughts, a vise compressing my head.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
Vocabulary lists containing vise
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