There were bodies with their noses and ears wrenched off with pliers.

He called the project Snowflakes, later adding small geometric forms using pliers to create lines in the shape of fingerprints and snowflakes.

After many years of bending gears with a pair of pliers, I made that tool, and then I made this other tool for sort of centering gears very quickly sort of developing my own little world of technology.

And it is a bit of a problem. The way they recycle the boards is that they actually use the coal briquettes, which are used all through China, but they heat up the boards, and with pairs of pliers they pull off all the components.

In order to give the impression that the primates are tame and appropriate pets for children, to protect people from their potentially toxic bite, or to deceive buyers into thinking the animal is a baby, animal dealers either pull the front teeth with pliers or wire cutters or they cut them off with nail cutters.