How to Use forked in a Sentence

forked

adjective

• On one of the forked tracks is a person that is tied down to the rails and cannot getaway.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Zulfiqar is the name of the forked sword of Imam Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, who is revered by Shi’ites.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• Use a weeder with a forked end or a trowel to help get the roots out.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• In 1961 Mellaart started to dig near the forked path at Çatalhöyük.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• A weeder with a forked end or a trowel is a good tool to use to help get the roots out.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Wood does so by jabbing at the snake with a forked tree branch, to the snake’s clear displeasure.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
• Near the top of a ridge, Dettamanti saw a forked object: an elk antler.
  — The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Chasing him is a horned, bipedal monster with a forked devil’s tail.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 11 July 2017
• There is a plexus of vessels under the forked tongue where the detomidine is absorbed.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Phil Tippett had decided on having the raptors enter the kitchen and wave their forked tongues around like snakes.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2018
• The shooter stands partially protected by a small, forked tree.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 6 June 2017
• The forked lightning that spidered the sky, sending deer and rabbits skittering for cover.
  — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 12 June 2017
• The video included images of a forked road, where the path of embracing God and Jesus led to a colorful place, while the other route led to darkness.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• In the forked walkways of Tehran’s central bazaar, many shops offer convincing copies of Gucci belts and Cartier handbags.
  — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2017
• And the Commission also said that Google should not have barred its partners from building devices based on forked versions of Android.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• Rising from the forked meat are fumes of suspiciously toxic purple.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• As a child in Massachusetts, I would often sit comfortably wedged in the forked trunk of a backyard maple reading or weaving gimp bracelets in the branches of a neighbor’s beech.
  — Tricia Glass, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• The forked Ethereum Classic, which is sticking with the token's original proof-of-work model, has emerged as an alternative trying to fill just that role.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022
• Standing next to me, Lukasz Dominikowski, armed with his asparagus cutter (a long, flat tool with a sharp, forked blade), has detected a ripple.
  — Christie Dietz, National Geographic, 14 May 2019
• On the other forked track, there are three people tied down to the rails and unable to escape (the number of people tied down varies by how the setup is envisioned, sometimes five people are mentioned rather than three, etc.).
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Now these developers will have to develop for another screen on a forked version of Android for an Amazon phone.
  — Roberto Baldwin, WIRED, 9 May 2013
• Among the changes are a proposal to allow hunters in Western Oregon to take any buck with a visible antler instead of the current forked-horn rule, and a new general season cow elk damage tag.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 July 2019
• What would be really interesting is a forked device hitting the EU market.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
• If a manufacturer builds a forked device and violates this contract, Google can revoke their Google app license and kick them out of the Android ecosystem.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
• Her delay in recounting it, her interest in recalling it now, to cast herself as a martyr when her poll numbers have sagged, and her record of speaking with forked tongue make the story dubious.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• In 2007, as Atlantic mackerel moved away from European Union waters toward colder shoals near Iceland, the silvery fish with forked tails precipitated a trade war.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018

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