The painter steadied the pair of ladders before climbing to the second-story eaves.

Construction crews stacked two pairs of ladders against the warehouse wall to reach the high shelves.

She used a pair of forceps to carefully remove the splinter from his finger.

The surgical tray held several pairs of forceps neatly arranged for the operation.

She used a pair of tweezers to remove the splinter from his thumb.

I grabbed a pair of nutcrackers from the drawer to crack the hard shells of the walnuts.

At the beginning of the workshop, we asked the participants to pair off so they could practice the exercises.

In the tournament's new format, king pairs on the board opened up unexpected tactical possibilities.

During the analysis, the researcher identified several inversion pairs that explained the anomalies.

The genome assembly contained several gaps, but the longest missing region was estimated to be about 12 kilobase pairs.