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His stomach turned as the two pincerlike jaws shot out and closed around her waist.

Some of these appeared to have pincerlike ends.

The creature probed the hole in its chest with delicate, pincerlike hands.

He smiled tenderly at me, maintaining a pincerlike grip.

Two enormous, pincerlike projections came from its mouth, reached down for Buck Dixon.

Q. How do the earwig's pincerlike appendages help it?

Instead of his familiar boots, a long, pincerlike appendage stretched into his field of view.

Pincerlike claws opened and shut.

As it approached, long pincerlike appendages emerged from behind its belly, reaching toward Tom and Chakotay.

It had a hard shell, black pupils eyes, and small pincerlike claws that were clacking toward M'k'n'zy's eyes.

He had eight limbs, each ending in a pincerlike claw that could be closed tightly when walking or opened for fighting or to manipulate tools.

It stretched and re- formed itself into a myriad of fearsome appearances, many with pincerlike teeth, but Grin ignored its antics.

It had also been given a pair of stumpy scaled arms which emerged from holes on either side of its neck, ending in pincerlike claws.

The fruit began to writhe under their ministrations, and then to disappear in chunks as they consumed it with their pincerlike jaws.

The central "receptionist," was a Quamahl with six arms terminating in pincerlike yet soft claws and another at the end of a long, trunklike snout.

Pattie returned her attention to the screen of her tricorder, adjusting several controls with her pincerlike digits.

He could see with frightening clarity the long red hairs on its legs and fat round body and the pincerlike jaws masticating its meal.

He felt it attempt to gore his flesh between the pincerlike horns on its head, but he squeezed it until its carapace split.

The massive Pa'uyk resembled a poisonous, shaggy spider with pincerlike hands at the ends of its four arms, but Worf felt unintimidated by the creature.

My husband, Richard, and I did not need binoculars to see the black skimmers open their pincerlike beaks as they fished for dinner on a palm-studded lagoon.

The progression is divided midway by the bay's sandy outer arms, which cut into the black water with a pincerlike sharpness that also suggests twin flashes of lightning.

The top of the Beet Ingram can fold forward and over the barrels so that they are covered by a single barrel with two pincerlike armatures protruding from it.

I gasped aloud as he cut, and when he took the strip of flesh, slippery with blood, in a pincerlike grip and began to draw it down, I screamed.

Once there, she leaned forward on the railing and looked over first at St. Mary's, basking in its sandy light directly opposite, then to her left, out to sea beyond the pincerlike piers, where all was dark.

The procedure involves separating the ulna and radius for below-elbow amputations, and in cases of congenital absence of the hand, to provide a pincerlike grasp that is motored by the pronator teres muscle.