vise
Example Sentences
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When she contracted Asian flu, the virus paralyzed her with “a vise cluster of migraines.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
“It’s like having a big block of ice in a vise and you are just slowly cranking up the vise,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024
It’s no cause for alarm, but it felt as if a vise were being twisted tighter and tighter around my chest.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
Redemption stared at his mother and his aunt, tears dripping down his motionless face, his hand a vise crushing Jam’s.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
