pincers

Example Sentences

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Agility’s Digit robot, with its rectangular eyes and pincers for hands, looks a little more like science fiction and a little less like a human replacement.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and closing slowly, with joints in all the right places.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

Some will have three arms, some with five fingers and others with pincers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner group’s founder, said, “The pincers are closing.”

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023

“Magnificent,” said Slughorn, approaching the spider’s head, where eight milky eyes stared blankly at the sky and two huge, curved pincers shone, motionless, in the moonlight.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling