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 like having a big block of ice in a vise and you are just slowly cranking up the vise,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 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
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
After I get the plank cut out, Mr. Woodwell has me set it in his bench vise and he takes up a block plane.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
Vocabulary lists containing vise
The Bridge Home
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