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    pincer


    1. ahead of Lee’s army in order to surround Lee in a pincer


    2. Joined within a pincer movement, another Snaggle charged the cart from the other side


    3. It will be a three-class pincer movement


    4. He pushed on faster realizing that for the moment, anyhow, he would have to sacrifice stealth for speed if he were to reach Spears and Myers before the VC closed the pincer this side of the river


    5. The pincer movement was so successful that the Major’s soldiers had been forced to withdraw


    6. The orders came through for the battalion to surge towards the Low Countries of Holland and Belgium then form a pincer movement into France


    7. Thereby, I released my pincer grip on Carmella"s pant leg


    8. opposes the other toes, thereby allowing for a pincer grip


    9. While eying the Pincer Street trees, I decided to turn


    10. What we know is that at least one enemy infantry brigade is poised to the West of our perimeter, along the Matanikau River, and may attempt a pincer attack, with one thrust from possibly the South of the airfield

    11. Ingrid gave on the radio the order for her two parallel columns to split as they approached the firefight, with one column then accelerating and doing a wide hook to the right, passing behind the defending Marine engineers, who seemed to have their hands full, in order to form a pincer opposite the column still led by Ingrid


    12. With the pincers soon only 200 meters distant from each other and with their numbers dwindling steadily under the deluge of bullets, the Japanese finally decided to launch an ultimate suicide charge on the pincer commanded by Ingrid, rising from the tall grass and yelling savagely while rushing forward with their bayonets fixed on their long ARISAKA rifles


    13. The pincer snatched and began to tug


    14. Zhukov launched a huge pincer movement with these seasoned troops in their white winter gear and thick fur lined boots, who were trained to lie out in the open for hours or even days at a time


    15. Hitler was determined to throttle the Soviet state and conceived operation "Blau" which would culminate in a huge pincer movement closing around Stalingrad; effectively cutting Russia in half


    16. pincer around the back of her neck


    17. Manstein's Southern Army Group formed the right pincer


    18. It achieved a considerable measure of success, but the effect was nullified by the failure of the left pincer


    19. The Allies launched a pincer attack with nearly one hundred thousand men to push back the remaining German forces who continued to fight with great tenacity in retreat


    20. The Red Army, determined and vengeful, launched a massive pincer assault on Berlin; their commander Zhukov did not care how many lives he sacrificed as long as he won in the end

    21. The four fighters in the center of the first main wave stayed the course but the two groups of four fighters on the extremities broke off, starting to hook around to catch her into a double pincer


    22. Now caught in a pincer, the three Iranian agents fought ferociously, sending bullets in both directions and turning the until then quiet street into a deadly battlefield


    23. If they do that, then we will be caught in a giant pincer between them and Mars…and the KOSTROMA


    24. With their continued advance in the Solomons, they obviously hoped to effect a double pincer in order to take and destroy Rabaul


    25. understand that it was a giant pincer clamped onto his shoe


    26. An army of five thousand had been caught in a pincer movement and routed


    27. The combined force was outmanoeuvred by the French and caught in a pincer movement, at Formigny


    28. She disappeared for a second and emerged with a long-handled tool with a small, sharp pincer on the end


    29. There was no traffic and without halting Teller pulled Brigit to his left and they raced along the sidewalk opposite a small bay with craggy shore lines forming a pincer


    30. double-pronged pincer made of lithe lizard figures

    31. A small river runs at the foot of the mountain, and we continue our pincer movement along its banks


    32. The pincer movement is in its final phase, and we are now behind the ridge


    33. My blood would curdle as I watched some enormous antenna bar my path, or saw some frightful pincer snap shut in the shadow of some cavity! A thousand specks of light glittered in the midst of the gloom


    34. His eyes never flickered, never stopped their sweep of the body-choked ladder to the main hatch or the bulwark of bodies he’d piled around the fore hatch when they’d tried a pincer up both approaches


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    Synonyms for "pincer"

    chela claw nipper pincer pair of pincers pair of tweezers tweezer

    "pincer" definitions

    a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping


    a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods