viselike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Bezos invited Funk to join him and his brother on the flight, and she enthusiastically accepted, hugging Bezos in a viselike embrace.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2021
Stempel, once dubbed a “high-strung Human Univac” after the 1950s supercomputer, displayed an uncanny intelligence and viselike memory from his earliest years.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2020
Many technology companies have structured themselves to give founders a viselike grip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 6, 2018
As the Libyan fighters push deeper into Surt, the infrastructure of fear that helped the Islamic State exert a viselike grip is being dismantled.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2016
Baby Kochamma would call out when she saw him, with a smile on her lips that completely belied the viselike grip that she had on the thin child’s soapslippery arm.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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