How to Use vise in a Sentence

vise

noun

• Get a firm grip on the chisel, and brace your hand on the vise.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Then clamp the elbow in a vise, and secure the connections with a wrench on the valve's facets.
  — Joe Kohl-Riggs, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2021
• Test method: Clamp the T in a machinist vise and pry apart with pliers.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• And in Greater Boston, too, the vise is being tightened.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
• The crowd began pushing forward like one side of a vise.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• Each bare hook in the vise is a blank canvas, ready to be made into something unique.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2022
• Instead, the movie foregrounds an actor trapped in a vise of her own making.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• After all, if even the longtime Trump exec can get caught in a vise, no one is immune.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 1 July 2021
• In the study, participants who cursed aloud while gripping a hand vise were able to squeeze harder and longer.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• It’s rated to support 1,450 pounds, so don’t be shy about bolting a hearty machinist vise or even a drill press to the top.
  — Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• Some readers will complain that the influencer class has young people in a vise.
  — M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
• With the chainsaw firmly clamped either in a saw vise or with the tool’s bar held in a bench vise, align the markings on the guide so they are parallel with the saw bar.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• But the emotion is most potent when held in the vise of controlling or fearful human minds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• That need is what put Ms. Noem in a vise over the transgender legislation.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2021
• At a workstation equipped with a green vise, Webster is sanding down a guitar neck.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 3 Jan. 2022
• Some voiced confidence that the legal vise on the Russian leader would only grow tighter.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The lingering headache tightened its vise across my forehead.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2021
• There is a powerful temptation to see Jeffrey Wigand as a symbol: the little guy against the cartel, a good man caught in a vise.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• No one has yet figured out how to measure the effect inside a diamond vise.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
• The pain came on gradually over several weeks, as if some part of my brain were being slowly squeezed in a vise.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Jack had a double aortic arch, a condition where an extra branch stemming from the heart constricts the airway like a vise.
  — Amy Paturel, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
• That would further tighten the vise, since Lloyd's of London has for centuries been at the center of the maritime insurance market.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 16 June 2022
• Once the vise is closed, retreat and surrender will be the enemy’s only option.
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• Members of Iran’s national team are in a vise, called upon by the protest movement to speak out against a government that brooks no dissent.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
• Russian troops lunged from two directions, closing the city in a vise, routing Ukrainian soldiers in the first few weeks, and pushing them back to the sea and toward Azovstal.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Corwin acknowledges that while their hearts are in the right place, the Academy’s mission is to support all films, equally, and they are being put in a vise by ABC.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
• But will cryptocurrency provide a way for the Russians to elude this financial vise?
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• With each new challenge to his authority, Trump tightened the vise further.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
• Britain is locked in the same economic vise of rising prices and lagging wage growth that is afflicting many other countries.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2022
• Their four-man rush beat Seattle’s dubious offensive line and put Wilson in a vise as the quarterback searched in vain for places to go downfield with the ball.
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024