How to Use forceps in a Sentence

forceps

noun
  • Maybe those printers could spit out the needles or forceps, too.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • In the video, forceps nudge a piece of squid that sits on a ramp as an offering.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2021
  • The roach was dropped into one cup of juice, stirred with a forceps and then removed.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • That started to change—for better and for worse—with the invention of the forceps.
    — Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Doctors had no choice but to pluck the bloodsuckers out, one by one, using forceps.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The baby’s heart rate was dropping, and so an emergency team came in and pulled him out with forceps.
    — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2020
  • Lucas still has a hard time looking to his right—the forceps initially left a huge welt over his right eye.
    — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2020
  • Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • My colleagues, meanwhile, used forceps to pick glistening scale worms and peanut worms from the rocks.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Michael Sharkey took out a pair of thin forceps and began examining his catch.
    — Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This includes a net, forceps or needle-nosed pliers and a camera if a photo is desired.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Asingle alive leech was recovered from the urethra after ten days with the help of forceps.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2018
  • Experts caution people not to touch the worms with their bare hands, and instead use gloves or disposable forceps.
    — Fox News, 4 July 2019
  • Add a walking/wading stick, mash down the barbs on all hooks and use forceps to remove hooks without damaging the fish.
    — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 May 2021
  • There, a doctor was able to remove the shoe in less than a second, as Michael recalled it, with a longer set of forceps.
    — Markian Hawryluk and Heidi De Marco, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The key to removal is to use tweezers or another fine-toothed forceps, rather than something more clunky like scissors.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Before the scalpels, the forceps, and the surgical needles, Tom Jones knew steel.
    — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 15 May 2017
  • Sperry started by gently prying out newts’ eyes with a jeweler’s forceps.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2011
  • After a 45-minute process, using suction and forceps, doctors were able to extract the bug, still alive.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The zinger is one of the best inventions in sport, essentially a small retractable leash for tools like clippers, forceps, and more.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2022
  • During the feeding trials, the scientists picked up a plastic or sand particle with forceps and dropped it near a coral polyp.
    — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • But Borneo's exploding ants will even self-detonate far from their colony, or when lightly touched with forceps in the lab.
    — Douglas Main, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2011
  • Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Utah wildlife managers say anglers should try to quickly remove the hook with forceps or needle-nosed pliers, and use wet hands when handling the fish.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • The operating team attaches to the arms all the necessary devices, from hooks to forceps.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • As a test, the researchers tried to replicate the bumblebee damage in additional plants with forceps and a razor.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 21 May 2020
  • This was grasped in sponge-holding forceps; but traction only resulted in the tail coming off, making matters worse than ever.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2014
  • Some of the other objects left inside patients included part of a pair of wire cutters, part of a scalpel blade, and the bolt from surgical forceps.
    — Bloomberg.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Using a pair of forceps, Wilder extracted the tiniest piece from the woman's organs, stopped the alarm bells, and stitched the woman back up.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The real culprit seems to have been a village vaccinator who dropped a forceps and failed to properly disinfect it.
    — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023

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