How to Use vise in a Sentence

vise

noun
Definition of visenext
  • 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 | [email protected], 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

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