vise

Example Sentences

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State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

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

To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

The pain came on gradually over several weeks, as if some part of my brain were being slowly squeezed in a vise.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2023

My mom’s hand is a vise on my upper arm.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon