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Example sentences for: vise

How can you use “vise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I suddenly felt as if in the grip of a giant vise, a terrible feeling I had last experienced as a teen-ager before fleeing Communist Hungary.
One aspect of the horrible vise was the constant minor humiliations I had to suffer, such as interaction with the block warden, the party overlord of a block of houses, who had to give his assent to all matters tiny or grand, including travel.
Cross put his own racket in a vise grip and hooked it up to instruments designed to measure the bounce of a ball dropped from 50 centimeters onto the strings at various points.
One of the Clubbers, Eric Alterman, had called Buckley's book "a lumbering, themeless pudding of a novel that forces one's eyelids shut like an invisible vise."