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Example sentences for: tongs

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So the doctor inserts metal tongs, physically crushes the head, and dismembers the fetus.
It is muscle-building toil, this opening and closing of the poles, and it has earned for the tongs the name East Greenwich accordions . The only music they produce is the whistle of the tongers on the way to the bank.
Red quadriceps muscles from one leg of each animal were removed and freeze clamped as rapidly as possible with tongs that had been cooled in liquid N 2 . Samples were stored at -70°C for later use.
The tongs consist of two long poles with rakes affixed and crossed at the nether end, rakes many-toothed, curved and facing each other so as to clench the catch of hard-shelled clams.