How to Use tweezer in a Sentence

tweezer

noun
Definition of tweezernext
  • Nail any sparse hairs above the tree line with a pair of tweezers.
    — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • If that happens, try to use the tweezers to pull the mouth out as well.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2018
  • Look for a small groove at the base of the knob, and press into it with the tip of a pen or tweezers.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Then, use tweezers to remove the mouth, if that didn't come out with the rest of it.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The doctor removed the tick with tweezers and cleaned up the bite mark.
    — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 24 May 2017
  • Do not squeeze the site or use tweezers, the CDC stated.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 21 July 2024
  • Shape your brows or get rid of rogue hairs with a great tweezer.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Take a pair of tweezers, grasp the tick, and pull it up with steady, even pressure.
    — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024
  • To do that, use fine tweezers to grip the tick as close to the skin as possible.
    — Alice Park, Time, 29 June 2017
  • Have a partner do a full-body check with a pair of tweezers handy.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Instead use tweezers and pluck at the site of the bite as close to the skin as possible.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • If this happens pull those parts out with the tweezers as well.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2019
  • If the mouth-parts do break off, remove them with tweezers.
    — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 2 May 2018
  • Put those tweezers on the tick as close to your skin as your can and pull gently straight back.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 11 June 2019
  • Use tweezers to grab hair at the root to prevent breakage.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 7 July 2024
  • Down the hall from the hedgehog, staff fed trilling birds — no bigger than the palm of a hand — with tweezers and syringes.
    — Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Before Prater could wrap his head around it, the physician numbed his eye and plucked the pest out with tweezers.
    — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 16 July 2019
  • Use tweezers and grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible while gently pulling it up and out.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Use tweezers and grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible while gently pulling it up and out.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • At its worst, the pull of the threads will feel a little like plucking your eyebrows with tweezers.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2019
  • There, the suspect punched the woman in the face and stabbed her several times with tweezers.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
  • If any mouth-parts of the tick remain in your skin or your pet’s skin, remove them with tweezers.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Next, the scientists placed a healthy TN57 plant in a closed glass tank with one whose leaves had been pierced with tweezers.
    — Priyanka Runwal, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
  • When a tick is found, remove it by firmly gripping the body close to the skin with a pair of tweezers and pull straight out.
    — Susan Bromley, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2018
  • How to identify a tick bite Using tweezers, grip the body of the tick firmly and pull straight out of the skin, do not twist the tick.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
  • If the splinter is already at the surface but tweezers can’t do the job, apply a piece of duct tape.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • All except the tweezers were found at my local craft store.
    — Paul Wright, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Each tweezer in the set has a different tip: one pointy, one angled, and one flat.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Then pull the tweezers away from your skin with consistent force the entire time.
    — Kate Sheridan, SELF, 14 July 2018
  • Gunn explains that some epilators are designed to emulate tweezers, with small plates that grab hair as the epilator moves up and down the skin.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2024

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