How to Use vise in a Sentence

vise

noun
  • How about a bar clamp, bench vise or stud finder?
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • Get a firm grip on the chisel, and brace your hand on the vise.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • But each time, the Clintons found a way out of the vise.
    — Steven Sloan The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But each time, the Clintons found a way out of the vise.
    — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This leaves business owners and consumers in a vise.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • In his story, the father’s teeth are bared and his hands form a vise-grip around his wife’s shoulders.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Then clamp the elbow in a vise, and secure the connections with a wrench on the valve's facets.
    — Joe Kohl-Riggs, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • The lingering headache tightened its vise across my forehead.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Some readers will complain that the influencer class has young people in a vise.
    — M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • For some tasks, having the item located down inside the vise won't be ideal.
    — New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Bring vise and tools; limited availability of tools for new fly tiers.
    — Staff Report, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • No one has yet figured out how to measure the effect inside a diamond vise.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
  • But the emotion is most potent when held in the vise of controlling or fearful human minds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
  • At a workstation equipped with a green vise, Webster is sanding down a guitar neck.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Bring vise, tools and materials and/or fish stories.
    — Staff Report, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Once the vise is closed, retreat and surrender will be the enemy’s only option.
    — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • These optional extras work more like the jaws of a regular vise, simply pressing in on the object in a straight line.
    — New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • There, Zaloom argues, they are locked in a self-contradictory moral vise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • If needed, clamp sample in vise vertically and deliver blows to face of sample.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But will cryptocurrency provide a way for the Russians to elude this financial vise?
    — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2022
  • 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.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • To make it, Dias’s team loaded a thin lutetium foil in a diamond vise and injected a mix of hydrogen and nitrogen gas.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023

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