tongs

How To Use tongs In A Sentence

• Remove from oil with tongs and allow to drain on a paper towel.
• Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
• Dressed again in wadmal, leather gloves, leather apron, and wooden shoes, beard and mane full of the soot that blackened his skin, the dwarf gripped a piece with tongs and banged it into shape. Operation Luna
• These Chinese gangs, what the Cantonese called tongs, had been in this country since the discovery of gold in California. The Flower Net
• This was a fine adjustment, for by working hammer-and - tongs through a twelve-hour day, after freight had been deducted from the selling price of the wood in Los Angeles, the wood-chopper received one dollar and sixty cents. Chapter V
• Use a pair of tongs and dip the string into the paraffin.
• These vintage tongs will make you the star hostess while you dish out the sugar cubes. The Sun
• Use a pair of tongs to turn the bird so that it browns all over, then remove from the pan. Times, Sunday Times
• The ride was long, but, with my saddle-bags and Lucy, a new mare my aunt had raised and given me, and clad in overalls, which we called tongs, I cared little for the mud, and often enough stopped to assist a chaise out of the deep holes, which made the roads dangerous for vehicles. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
• They took a close look at Cap Fourchu which resembled the tongs of a fourchette, or fork, and Champlain studied an attractive harbor that is now the port of Yarmouth. Champlain's Dream