Wiktionary
n. An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once; especially one which thereby traps the enemy
Usage examples of "pincer attack".
I did not think I had the ships to make this pincer attack truly devastating, but, in the turmoil of a battle at sea, without the clearest understanding of the position and numbers of the enemy, such flanking attacks might have unusual psychological value.
The streams on either side seemed to move faster, flowing down through the open country and curving round below Santo Francisco like two columns mounting a pincer attack on the village of Avin two miles lower down the slopes.
Now they too were breaking out, crossing the Indus, and the Muslims therefore in danger of being cut off by a pincer attack as large as Asia, some of them already trapped in Burma, the bulk of them still together in the west and beginning a slow, stubborn retreat.
Sharia Bull bravely supporting him, he had engaged the white Gundam Suit once more in order to gain time, and it had retreated of its own accord, clearly fearing a pincer attack.
While you are taking the Falcon Guards along the river, I will try a pincer attack, coming in straight at them.
When the demon ray group attacked, the koalinth foragers fled east, leading their pursuers between the pincer attack of the combined sahuagin and Sea Hulk groups.
The question also, of course, is complicated by the possibility that the Achuultani might attempt a pincer attack, using one group of scouts to draw our sublight units out of position and then micro-jumping across the system to attack from another direction.
General Amesburys Scanner Command is well prepared to detect the enemy's approach, but we do not know whether we would be better advised to send our units out to meet them as they move in-system after leaving hyper or to concentrate closer to Earth for sorties from within the shield after they have closed with the planet The question also, of course, is complicated by the possibility that the Achuultani might attempt a pincer attack, using one group of scouts to draw our sublight units out of position and then micro-jumping across the system to attack from another direction.
The three people headed for the far end of the Admin Building were almost certainly planning to use one of the exterior fire escapes to gain access to the fifth floor as one prong of a pincer attack on the conference room.
Even as the smoke was clearing, the two groups would storm into the basement and catch Cal Sharkle in a pincer attack.
Black hair invaded his broad brow like a pincer attack, two pointed wedges reaching down to nearly the end of his eyebrows.
The killers were using the crowds well, excusing themselves politely but firmly through, one on the right, one on the left, closing in like two prongs of a pincer attack.
The killers were using the crowds well, excusing themselves politely but firmly through, one on the right, one on- the left, closing in like two prongs of a pincer attack.
Besides, if I tried to break in anywhere, I might need all my lines for a pincer attack on somebody's security systems, and I had one tied up with my call and another holding my search data.