Put in a vise

Usage examples of clamp.

Then the militia ranks parted and there were three men adangle, clots of handflesh clamped to their throats.

Sunbright had clamped down on his stomach as the air-boat lifted into the night sky, drifted, tacked, dropped and lurched in capricious air pockets, and finally docked, a mile in the air, at the spidery airdocks of Ioulaum.

She was folded forward over her seat-belt, her head turned toward Andi below dashboard level, phone still clamped to her ear.

Bone-clean fingers clamped about the applewood and jerked, winning the prize.

As they rounded a corner they met the manager and the two who had gone with him manhandling Baumer the other way, struggling, kicking, and emitting muffled screams behind the hand clamped across his mouth.

Fear had clamped around my neck like an invisible bonesetter, so I tried to focus on the men and the reason we were trying to kill ourselves.

The beast beneath him seemed harder, bonier than any he had ever clamped between his legs before, and was surely as strong as any cameloid that Hal had ever ridden.

He clamped his fingers on the dagger at his side to keep himself from murdering Brelan Saur.

With her foot on the ledge the only thing holding us against the cliff, she releases her left hand, sweeps it up, and clamps her safety line on to my dangling carabiner still attached to the piton.

The quaddie piloting the pusher, a dark-haired, copper-skinned girl named Zara in the purple T-shirt and shorts of the pusher crews, brought her ship smartly into alignment and clicked it delicately into the clamps on the landing spoke.

Ti insist on docking to the Superjumper, Silver realized, as the crunch and shudder of their impact with the docking clamps reverberated through the pusher.

Within minutes the vortex mirror was fitted into its insulated clamps, its alignment checked.

He went back to the cupboard, laid out scalpels, clamps, sutures on a cloth-covered tray and carried them back to the bed.

From left to right it featured a series of vises and clamps to give him the gripping or clasping ability now denied to him through the loss of his left arm and hand.

The shiny metal clamps made her stomach churn and through the gag she whimpered nervously, shaking her head and imploring them with her eyes not to go ahead with what they were about to do to her.