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Usage examples of "pair of pliers".
He produced a pair of pliers from a loop at his waist and bent, putting one foot on the saddle and pinching the tool closed on the glint of metal where arrow shaft joined leather.
Al handed over the bucket and Tom set it under the car and loosened the oil cap with a pair of pliers.
Now he approached Eddie with a pair of pliers in one hand and a paring knife in the other.
He used a pair of pliers to fashion a loop in the end of the wire.
When I opened my eyes, blinded with tears, I saw the leather worker approaching my face with a tiny, steel ring, partly opened, and a pair of pliers.
He stood there balanced easily, and with one hand he tipped his hat and with the other he took from his pocket a pair of pliers and handed them up to the hardware fellow.
Sieben examined the tools set there - an old pair of pliers, three sharp knives, several curved needles of horn and one long straight needle of iron.
Giuseppe had in hand a small fine-toothed saw and a huge pair of pliers.
He got a long-handled screwdriver, a clawhammer, a pair of pliers, and an electric lantern from the workroom and carried them upstairs.
She was wearing a suit just like Captain Widdershin's, with the same portrait of the bearded man on the front, and had a flashlight in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other.
Natalie, go look in tile top drawer of my desk, you'll find a chain and a pair of pliers.
With a tiny pair of pliers Hoagland pried open the back of the doll-like structure and saw, within, intricate wiring.
The fat man nodded to the second Nemes clone, who walked to the tray, removed the rusty pair of pliers, walked around to Aenea's left hand, held it steady at the wrist, and pulled out all of my darling's fingernails.
An associate named Alfred Berman, who walked in while Taggart was being tortured, described being appalled at the sight of a naked man tied to a chair and covered in blood while Richardson screamed at him and kept hitting him with a heavy pair of pliers - the pair used for pulling teeth.
He tapped it with a finger and, when nothing changed, dug into his pockets until he found a screwdriver, a piece of wire, and a pair of pliers.