How to use tongs in a sentence

More sentences with tongs

• When they had an argument they went at it hammer and tongs.From the entry hammer and tongs
• “A pact between Poland, Romania, and the Hungarians.” “But what about us?” The tongs snapped closed.2011, Alison Pick, Far to Go. From the entry Hungarland
• Hayek's long thin metal tongs and the way they gleam under the infirmary lights.2008, Monique Polak, What World is Left, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry say aah
• Ragged embers, horn of an anvil, hovering bellows, a tongs of function and capernosity.2008, Tom MacIntyre, Find the Lady, page 18. From the entry capernosity
• Masa (tongs) -an idioglot with a sound-rhythmical effect and with a secondary musical function; made of iron.1987, The World of Music - Volume 29, page 69. From the entry idioglot
• Trafton bet till his money was gone and went into the game yesterday hammer and tongs.1920 November 8, “Islanders and Staleys Battle To Scoreless Draw in Sensational Game”, in Quad City Times. From the entry hammer and tongs
• There were silver tongs for the sugar, apostle spoons with elaborate handles, a milk jug adorned with a pheasant in flight.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 114. From the entry apostle spoon
• Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner.2009, Death in Blackpool (The New Eighth Doctor Adventures; 4.01), Big Finish, publisher's summary. From the entry half cut
• The 30-inch stainless steel tongs have scissor-like pincers that you operate with one hand while working a shorter, third appendage with the other hand.2014 January 29, Julie Lasky, “Extra Arms (and Teeth) for Wrangling Firewood”, in The New York Times. From the entry scissor-like
• These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 26. From the entry bloom
• She tried to grab some branches of brush and pull her face forward into their wet rootiness, but the tongs grabbed her until she was numb, and she lolled over.1986, Lella Warren, Foundation Stone, page 296. From the entry rootiness

Meaning of tongs

1. noun An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
2. noun A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.

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Questions about tongs in a sentence

How do you use tongs in a sentence?

Tongs is used as a noun. For example: “When they had an argument they went at it hammer and tongs.”

What is a short sentence with tongs?

“When they had an argument they went at it hammer and tongs.”

What does tongs mean?

Tongs means an instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.