How To Use Tongs In A Sentence
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Remove from oil with tongs and allow to drain on a paper towel.
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Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
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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
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These Chinese gangs, what the Cantonese called tongs, had been in this country since the discovery of gold in California.
The Flower Net
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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
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Use a pair of tongs and dip the string into the paraffin.
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These vintage tongs will make you the star hostess while you dish out the sugar cubes.
The Sun
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Use a pair of tongs to turn the bird so that it browns all over, then remove from the pan.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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At the time, however, Old Beijing City was seen as a symbol of feudalism and eventually the Liang & Chen Plan was shelved, resulting in the wholesale destruction of hutongs.
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Tongs, pokers and even smoothing irons were used, apart from fists, boots and belts.
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Then use straighteners, or tongs if you prefer to avoid the poker look.
Times, Sunday Times
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See, in order to get my fine, straight hair to even vaguely do the bouffant standing-up thing, Tony had had to go at me with hairdryer and tongs and more hairspray than you might see at the average Miss World contest.
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They were going at it hammer and tongs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tongs pinch your skin and a gauge measures the hunk of flesh in millimeters.
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Test by pushing on the centre of the steak with the side of the tongs, do not dig into the steak with a knife.
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It fills the air with the stench of hair tongs and way too much product.
The Sun
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She then opens a lacquered wooden box on the silver tray and using a pair of long silver tongs extracts a writhing leech.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Shop for basics like stockpots and tongs, and drool over commercial appliances.
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Customers line-up cafeteria-style, filling red plastic trays with pastries, using not their hands, but a pair of tongs taken from a rack.
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The ore was usually found in water less than twelve feet deep and was raised by men in large, flat-bottomed boats wielding drags, rakes, or heavy, powerful tongs similar to oystering tongs.
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Fire-raisers can pretend they know what they're doing by attentively rearranging the embers with the tongs supplied.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's going to be hammer and tongs and we have to be ready for that.
The Sun
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There are times when we have to go out with hammer and tongs.
Christianity Today
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If the right buttons were pressed, we could go at it hammer and tongs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
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Fry for a few minutes until browned, turning regularly with tongs.
The Sun
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Then take a set of tongs and redip each lobster in your broth just to coat them with more flavor.
Mosh Potatoes
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Fry for a few minutes until browned, turning regularly with tongs.
The Sun
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-- the divil swape yourself and your tongs, 'says I,' I don't want
Stories of Comedy
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony taken at a wrong tempo than a duchess by losing a diamond necklace, I was indifferent to the repulsive fact that if I had fallen in love with the duchess I did not possess a morning suit in which I could reasonably have expected her to touch me with the furthest protended pair of tongs; and I did not see that to remedy this
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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Once in the door you'll be straight over to the hearth, emptying ashes and raking dead coals, scooping up briquettes of turf with a pair of tongs and stacking them up.
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They were all about going hammer and tongs without much structured training input.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terms secret societies and tongs are often used synonymously, but highbinders (aka hatchet men) refers to certain members of the tongs.
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These tours provide many visitors with their first sight of native species such as the potoroos; their larger cousins, the pademelons and the brush-tailed bettongs or woylies; and the pointy-nosed bandicoots.
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This is Franklin's workshop; its shelves are heaped with junk: quires of paper, rags, hammers, tongs, bottles, wires, books, old shoes, rolls of leather, bones, feathers.
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Measure the effects of Tongshu capsule on clotting time by using capillary method.
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The scissors of Fragoso had little to do, for it was not a question of cutting these wealthy heads of hair, nearly all remarkable for their softness and their quality, but the use to which he could put his comb and the tongs, which were kept warming in the corner in a brasier.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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It is time for the younger generation to go at it hammer and tongs.
The Sun
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Toss well with a pair of tongs and cook until the broccoli begins to colour.
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These vintage tongs will make you the star hostess while you dish out the sugar cubes.
The Sun
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Use tongs to turn and cook the other side until buttery soft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Minutes later, the baker picks up two long iron tongs and gently tugs the bread from the tandoor wall and plops it in the waiting arms of his customer.
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I attacked the bowl of molluscs using a great technique I was once taught for eating mussels without cutlery, by using an empty shell as a finger-sized pair of tongs.
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Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
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Cupel tongs are adequate for moving bigger range of cupels used in ore analysis.
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Next, split the pony into four sections, spray with hairspray and wrap round tongs to curl.
The Sun
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We were going hammer and tongs there for three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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The marriage over the tongs is a thing to scandalise any well-brought-up person, for before he joined the couple's hands, Jimmy jumped about in a startling way, uttering wild gibberish, and after the ceremony was over there was rough work, with incantations and blowing on pipes.
Auld Licht Idylls
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When I was a child my father would plan a barbeque for my birthday every year, and every year we would all end up in the living room, watching him cook in the rain with his tongs in one hand and a golf umbrella in the other.
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Of a green scrub-ellum forestick with a vicious pair of tongs,
Riley Farm-Rhymes
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They had left the curling tongs too close and they had to rush about trying to find a new moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paisley had a gecko to release and we saw two bilbies and two burrowing bettongs.
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Using long-handled tongs, he holds the metal in the forge until it heats to a dull red or straw color, then quickly moves it to the anvil.
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We could hear the neighbours going at each other hammer and tongs.
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It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices.
A quick peek behind China's wall
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They were going at it hammer and tongs.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs.
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We'll be chasing and going hammer and tongs from here on in.
Times, Sunday Times
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He thinks the rat kangaroo moniker has somewhat tarnished bettongs ' image.
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The forger then seized the blank in a pair of tongs and reheated it in his forge or furnace to as high a temperature as the metal could stand without burning up.
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It's going to be hammer and tongs and we have to be ready for that.
The Sun
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Too busy taking hammer and tongs to Beloved, I suppose, to break for the single-candled cake.
Archive 2009-10-01
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Mara and the president went at it hammer and tongs, beating out offer and counteroffer as blood boiled and tempers rose.
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We are specialize in produce kinds of kitchen utensil and hotel tools, include strainer, food tongs, fruit juicer .
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The tools used comprise the usual suspects: hoists, tongs, routers, chainsaws, bandsaws and chisels.
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On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final.
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Visitors to an archaeology open day at Rievaulx on Saturday will be invited to pump the bellows to produce a batch of bloom, which can be removed from the furnace with tongs and worked on an anvil.
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Use a pair of tongs to turn the bird so that it browns all over, then remove from the pan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
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It is time for the younger generation to go at it hammer and tongs.
The Sun
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In the winter, many of the local watermen use hydraulic tongs to catch oysters, and a few skipjack boats continue to work out of Wenona harbor.
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Although many women still request hair ‘blow-dried straight’ at salons, the trend has shifted and a substantial number are experimenting with tongs, rollers and pins.
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She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.
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We went to witness the two best attacking teams in Europe going at it hammer and tongs.
The Sun
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Grabbing a pair of tongs that rested in one of the boxes Joe served himself several of the chicken fingers.
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While he warmed the end of his blow-pipe at the 'bocca' he looked to right and left to see where the working-stool and marver were placed, and to be sure that the few tools he needed were at hand, the pontil, the 'procello,' -- that is, the small elastic tongs for modelling -- and the shears.
Marietta A Maid of Venice
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Rumor held that a violent captain had caught him stealing a pudding, and had pinched the ear with tongs heated cherry-red in the galley stove.
Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
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These tongs are a great way to twist and bend your way to great new curly dos.
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I got my musket, and Tommy Staytape armed himself with the goose -- a deadly weapon, whoever may get a clour with it -- and Benjie took the poker in one hand, and the tongs in the other; and out we all marched briskly, to make the Frenchman, that was locked up from the light of day in the coal-house, surrender.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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Lift them out of the liquid with a pair of tongs and put them in a serving dish and keep warm.
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Going to be a long winter -" Yarrl lifts the tongs and slides the partly forged clamp from the bricks into the fire, reaching for the midsized swage as he does so.
The Magic Engineer
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We were going hammer and tongs there for three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is Franklin's workshop; its shelves are heaped with junk: quires of paper, rags, hammers, tongs, bottles, wires, books, old shoes, rolls of leather, bones, feathers.
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Other tools were arrayed on a white towel, like an exhibit of Civil War medical instruments: three-pronged ice tongs, dull knives, a wooden mallet.
Old-Fashioned
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The things people accumulated -- old pictures and pewter, jade and carved ivory and ugly-faced masks and books and tapestries and large yellow sperm-whale teeth scored with scrimshaw, silver platters and spoons and sugar tongs, the incidental and ill-assorted objects that were supposed to have value -- all of it was merely borrowed from the vast store of the world's artifacts and ultimately returned to it, sold, bequeathed, lost, stolen.
Beard
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Then use straighteners, or tongs if you prefer to avoid the poker look.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not touch the face of the pictures but used a pair of tongs from the desk drawer to separate them.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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I went into the shop to buy hair tongs and there it was, behind the sales boy.
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The Talmud states that God gave man the first pair of tongs, because it is impossible to forge a pair of tongs without already having another pair to hold the metal in the fire.
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Toss with tongs, then cover and cook over medium-low heat for 4 to 5 minutes, until kale is completely wilted and tomatoes have created a brothy sauce.
Grills Gone Wild
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At the other end of the scale from the six large types mentioned above are the rat/rabbit-sized bettongs, potoroos and rat-kangaroos.
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Hold them in a Bunsen burner flame with a pair of tongs.
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We'll be chasing and going hammer and tongs from here on in.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hid sharp unease behind the cream sponge and sugar tongs.
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Most icemen used tongs and carried the blocks on their back.
Garden of Beasts
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This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes.
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McCain unbeknownst to Warner has indeed picked up a hot charcoal ember with his tongs, and purple with rage waits for Warner to turn back.
“Weenies”
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To accomplish this, the heated open end of the cylinder is laid horizontally upon a kind of semicircular cradle, and is held there by tongs handled by two men.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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Instructions if you come across this dvd set, remain calm,quickly using tongs and rubber gloves throw the container in a raging fire or furnace, burn for 24 hrs and then put the remaining debris into a mulcher and then bury the remains in in a concrete bunker deep underground and hope and pray it's essence doesn't leech into the ground water somehow.
Geek Deal: Full House Complete Series Collection for $79 | /Film
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Using a medicine dropper, tongs, and tweezers, how long does it take to remove 30 grains of rice from the bark of a tree?
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Use tongs to turn the chillies and cook for 5 min on the other side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turning pages with tongs will keep your mani perfect.
The Sun
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Implements such as tongs and serviettes must be used as far as possible to avoid the direct handling of food.
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Use tongs to turn and sprinkle other side.
Times, Sunday Times
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I reached for the tongs to pick it up and it caught the bottom of my dressing gown.
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Carefully remove the jars and screw lids from the boiling water with tongs and set them on the towel.
Toast:
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The first glass, meantime, rendered once more ductile by heat, was passed to another man upon another bench, who, keeping up all the while the rotatory motion necessary to preserve the form of the softened material, smoothed it with the battledoor, gauged it with the compasses, coaxed it with the sugar-tongs, and finally trimmed it around the top with his scissors as easily as if it had been of paper.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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A silver glow, like a blaze of molten escargot tongs, erupted from behind the ebony corona, and Claude felt himself trembling with a sort of euphoria.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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It has got wetland, it's got dry forest full of rabbits, bettongs, bandicoots, and there's lots of roadkill and sheep farming.
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It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices.
A quick peek behind China's wall
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If the right buttons were pressed, we could go at it hammer and tongs.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've heard you can hold a pepper by clasping it in tongs and holding it over the gas flame on the oven range, that is, if you have a gas range.
How to Roast Peppers ♥ | A Veggie Venture
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The lexemic idiom, like hammer and tongs (` violently ') can easily be identified with one of the familiar parts of speech (hammer and tongs = adverb).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
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With twists, trims and a deftly handled pair of tongs, the East Yorkshire hairdresser has proved he is a cut above.
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We were going hammer and tongs there for three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using tongs, turn until they soften.
The Sun
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Next, split the pony into four sections, spray with hairspray and wrap round tongs to curl.
The Sun
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This fabric belt has two pockets designed to hold the stainless-steel tongs, spatula and knife that are supplied.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you two go at it like hammer and tongs or do you sit and discuss problems quietly and sensibly while you take notes?
The Sun
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Uncle Gus pulled a hammer and some barbecue tongs out of his trousers pocket, and started tinkering.
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The day before yesterday an edict against catching fish, being taken off as I supposed it would be on shewing the Rajah some flies, Blake and I went down, and repeated our visit yesterday; the bed of the river at the debouchment of the path leading towards Tongsa, is elevated 1,431 feet,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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They had left the curling tongs too close and they had to rush about trying to find a new moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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Always place food on the cooking grate with tongs or a spatula.
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She picked up tongs and began rearranging cookies in the glass display.
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She also remembers her older sister liking to curl her hair with heated tongs and asking Helen to help.
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When it's smoking, quickly add broccoli and toss well with a pair of tongs.
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After a few minutes, he lifted the piece of metal off the anvil with a pair of tongs and plunged it into a bucket of water near by.
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Using long-handled tongs, he holds the metal in the forge until it heats to a dull red or straw color, then quickly moves it to the anvil.
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Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
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It fills the air with the stench of hair tongs and way too much product.
The Sun
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We could hear the neighbours going at each other hammer and tongs.
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The best of the best, going at it hammer and tongs.
The Sun
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Place the exposed board into the tray of developer using plastic tweezers or tongs and agitate the board gently.
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They were all about going hammer and tongs without much structured training input.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had left the curling tongs too close and they had to rush about trying to find a new moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is certainly a two man job, because one is controlling the tongs with the billets in, and places it on the anvil, whilst the other hits it smartly before the work has a chance to cool at all.
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That way, with tongs I can add white-ash briquettes to the smoker to maintain the temperature.
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The ostler and humpbacked postilion, one bearing a stable-lantern and a hay-fork, the other a rushlight and a broom, constituted the advanced guard; Mrs. Dods herself formed the centre, talking loud and brandishing a pair of tongs; while the two maids, like troops not to be much trusted after their recent defeat, followed, cowering in the rear.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I 'ave curled it with the curling tongs -- not perhaps curl, but what the washerwoman would say -- ` goffer,' and for the rest, can you not see the wire?
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
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‘He slaps steak on to the grill, gulps from beer in one hand then attacks the meat with tongs in the other,’ he says.
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This is the old residence for the Tongs but it is called "the black house"for having been shut for so many years.
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Use tongs to turn and sprinkle other side.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best of the best, going at it hammer and tongs.
The Sun
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He put the tongs back on the stand, picked up the fireguard and set it in front of the fireplace.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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Seconds of silence passed before she fished the berry from the ice water with her tongs, then motioned for Jisuk to extend his hand.
365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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The man would drop his reins, go to the back of the wagon, bisect a hundred-pound block with his pick, swing half of it to his shoulder pad with his tongs, and proceed to someone's back door.
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Use tongs to turn the duck half-way through cooking.
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Use tongs to turn the chillies and cook for 5 min on the other side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Have you been going at it hammer and tongs down the gym?
The Sun
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Gardner - Well tongs are used for control of rotation and gentle traction simultaneously.
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Do you two go at it like hammer and tongs or do you sit and discuss problems quietly and sensibly while you take notes?
The Sun
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This Wutongshan Passenger Liner departed from port in 4:50 PM , one hour later than schedule.
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She is from the Gaduliya lohar community and makes hammers, spoons, chisels and tongs from scrap metal.
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He took to the Kiwi wine like a duck to water and by the time that Frenchman got to the barbie he was wielding a pair of tongs with gusto and flair.
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If Zeus and Hera started at it hammer and tongs, they might not even notice charbroiling a more or less innocent mortal bystander by mistake.
Counting Up, Counting Down
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He plunged in, time after time, to fetch out my in-thrown stick, with a frisky bound; emerging after the performance with ice-pendants to his glossy, silken ears and coat smartly curled, as if he had just paid a visit to Truefitt's, and been manipulated by the dexterous hands of one of the assistants at that celebrated establishment, armed with the crinal tongs and anybody's best macassar.
She and I, Volume 1
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We were going hammer and tongs there for three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a few minutes, he lifted the piece of metal off the anvil with a pair of tongs and plunged it into a bucket of water near by.
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His days were spent in inspecting the censers, the gold vases, the tongs, the rakes for the ashes of the altar, and all the robes of the statues down to the bronze bodkin that served to curl the hair of an old Tanith in the third aedicule near the emerald vine.
Salammbo
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It is outfitted with andirons and matching tongs and shovel marked by David Phillips, a New York City brass founder.
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Professionals use copper tongs to add and remove items from their pickle.
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Yes, it is now time for the Fiver to emerge from its cobwebbed crawl-space and head off for its early-summer "special" at Madame She-She's Kings Cross bathing parlour, there to enjoy its annual intensive ablution regime involving a 20-minute industrial hose-down, the descaling of physical extremities, laundering and re-stitching of Kevlar undergarments and finally an assisted constitutional massage overseen by a group of faceless, asbestos-suited individuals armed with tongs.
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Use tongs to turn to cook the other side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lock away heated styling accessories, such as tongs, straighteners and hair dryers, during the hot summer months.
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Use tongs to turn to cook the other side.
Times, Sunday Times
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We went to witness the two best attacking teams in Europe going at it hammer and tongs.
The Sun
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Poop 'n' Scoop Canadian Winter Gloves: With built-in tongs, plus a special pocket where you can place your dog's business and keep your hands warm for the rest of the walk.
Week 888: Make up a word based on someone's name
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Visitors to an archaeology open day at Rievaulx on Saturday will be invited to pump the bellows to produce a batch of bloom, which can be removed from the furnace with tongs and worked on an anvil.
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Using tongs, turn until they soften.
The Sun
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To give the Indian flat bread a sculptured look, use a pair of kitchen tongs to carefully hold bread a few inches above the open flame of a gas burner.
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He picked up the hot metal with a pair of tongs.
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She swung her bucket up and lifted her tongs over it with the panache of a magician producing a little miracle out of the container.
Times, Sunday Times
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They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.
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Use tongs to turn and cook the other side until buttery soft.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sisters got out of Alex's way as he grabbed an oven mitt and a pair of tongs.
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Cook for 2-3 minutes, flipping them over with tongs if necessary.
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They were all about going hammer and tongs without much structured training input.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were going hammer and tongs there for three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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The marriage over the tongs is a thing to scandalize any well-brought-up person, for before he joined the couple's hands Jimmy jumped about in a startling way, uttering wild gibberish, and after the ceremony was over there was rough work, with incantations and blowing on pipes.
Auld Licht Idyls
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So a team member can say that the tongs are the antennas to an extraterrestrial communications device and pretend to be tuning the antennas as they give their answer.
Joan Brunwasser: Kelly Donoughe: How Odyssey of the Mind Inspired This Alumnus
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There was a poker and a brush and some coal tongs lying neatly in the grate by her feet.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Using hairdryers and ceramic straightening tongs needn't be serious, as long as you put the moisture back.
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He picked up the hot metal with a pair of tongs.
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Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
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Here now is Fort Cornelius, and there is the moat, the sugar-basin is the citadel, and the tongs is the first trench, the decanter will represent the tall tower towards the south-west angle, and here, the wine glass -- this is me.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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Beside the candleholder was a metal device that looked like a combination between tongs and strange scissors.
The Soprano Sorceress
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All I could see was the drinks compartment in Humber's monster car, with the rack of ice-picks, tongs, and little miscellaneous chromium-plated objects.
For Kicks
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Have you been going at it hammer and tongs down the gym?
The Sun
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At the other end of the scale from the six large types mentioned above are the rat/rabbit-sized bettongs, potoroos and rat-kangaroos.
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Hammers, tongs, chisels, drills, rivets and a jumble of other small tools ringed this area, neatly lying on tables or upon shelves within quick reach of the smith.
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The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs.
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There are times when we have to go out with hammer and tongs.
Christianity Today
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Replacing spoons with tongs at a school canteen bar reduced the consumption of unhealthier foods.
Times, Sunday Times
