The nurse used a needle and tweezers to pull the splinter from the patient's thumb. From LearnThat.org.
This airport police officer, however, is said to have over 1,000 items, such as tweezers and nail clippers, at his home. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Transit Cop Took Confiscated Items Home] Reference
Male burials contain weapons -- swords, lances, and javelins -- as well as some bronze personal items such as tweezers and razors. From Wordnik.com. [Bountiful Celtic Burials] Reference
Researchers use precise electrical "tweezers" to place nanowires on predetermined spots on single cells. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
It also nixes trial-size containers, cosmetic applicators such as tweezers or eyelash curlers, and accessories like makeup bags. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
Are you going to bring a plane down with tweezers?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2006] Reference
Unfortunately, it looks more like a set of tweezers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2009] Reference
They say the 264 -- look at them, little tweezers there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2004] Reference
You may also need to pick off any tentacles with tweezers. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Luisa Dillner's guide to . . . Holiday pests] Reference
There is all manner of them, tweezers, right here, you can see. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006] Reference
We know of no cure but the constant use of a pair of tweezers. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
"We were only just recently allowed to bring tweezers and now this!". From Wordnik.com. [Air Safety: Plugging Holes in the Skies] Reference
M.F. F. -- Use tweezers, and accept our good wishes for your success. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.] Reference
You can bring nail files, knitting needles, tweezers and nail clippers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2006] Reference
I've lost about 10 tweezers over at security checkpoints at the airport. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2006] Reference
Grip the tick with fine-tipped tweezers as close to your skin as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Tick control: Change your yard from host to inhospitable] Reference
They feed on humans for at least 72 to 96 hours; use tweezers to remove them. From Wordnik.com. [Health: Bitten By the Bug] Reference
Right in this connection I will say that I cannot find tweezers that suit me. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
It said things like toenail scissors, and tweezers and little items like that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005] Reference
VERJEE: My tweezers, you know, they say, "Ma'am, you have to" -- 'no, I don't.'. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2006] Reference
FLATOW: But they'll keep those tweezers with them the rest of their lives, so. From Wordnik.com. [Plastics Piling Up In Atlantic Ocean] Reference
They make a ton of money on knives, Leatherman, tweezers, scissors, Bowie knives. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2006] Reference
Use fine tweezers to grip it close to your skin, taking care not to crush the body. From Wordnik.com. [Be aware of Lyme disease this summer] Reference
Electric epilators (with hundreds of tiny tweezers) and hot-wax treatments pull hair out. From Wordnik.com. [Hair removal: What’s best for you?] Reference
Though it was easily accessible with a pair tweezers, I thought the doctor take care of it. From Wordnik.com. [When doctors overcharge: One man's experience] Reference
Den, ez now, dey wa'n't a bunch er ha'r on it dat you could pull out wid a pa'r er tweezers. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
CAROLINE ACOSTA, TRAVELER: Every time I forget like tweezers or something, they always get me. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
Months later I am attacked by a scrawny, biting, blackwire figure struggling between my tweezers. From Wordnik.com. [This Could Be Over] Reference
Pull the plane in, I mean, and picked us out of it -- with a big pair of tweezers, likely as not. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
In the preceding cut we have bronze knives and tweezers -- also, a war-club of the same material. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Tweezerman started a fashion collaboration last year with tweezers by Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. From Wordnik.com. [For Fashionistas, Hot-Pink Tweezers and Tools] Reference
And he jokes that most of his rival's revenue comes from weekend infomercials "for nose tweezers and Body by Jake.". From Wordnik.com. [Forward Into Battle] Reference
To operate without too much cutting, surgeons have grown adept at using tiny tools much like tweezers and chopsticks. From Wordnik.com. [The Mini Fingers] Reference
The best way to remove an embedded tick is to grasp it with tweezers close to the skin and slowly but firmly pull it off. From Wordnik.com. [April False: 6 medical myths debunked] Reference
As the spider quickly fell to the pergo floor, I scampered to lift him up with a pair of tweezers to see if I could spot any forensics. From Wordnik.com. [Jayne Lyn Stahl: Confessions of a Spider Killer] Reference
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