How to Use forklift in a Sentence

forklift

noun

• It’s rippled across the docks to the trains, the trucks, the warehouses, the forklift drivers.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2021
• The fish was weighed with a crane scale, by raising it with a forklift truck.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Gomes-Pereira and his team enlisted the help of a forklift to weigh and measure the fish.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Some of the bones were so heavy that researchers required a forklift to move them.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• Witnesses told said the suspect broke in, stole the forklift and rammed through the gates.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 July 2023
• Workers used a forklift to move the RV out of the way to keep traffic moving.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• Stewart grew up in the Wylam area and worked as a forklift driver.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Oct. 2022
• And within the last five years, her staff parked a forklift in the back of a garage door in a receiving area of the store.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Some weighed dozens of kilograms and required a forklift to move.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 1 Feb. 2023
• The forklift passes by again and Ms. Salmon moves to another part of the warehouse.
  — Ibrahim Onafeko, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2021
• An hour before kickoff, a forklift drove behind the south stands with a load of wood.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• One parked a forklift in front of the vehicle to keep it from moving and called police.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
• Off to the side, a tattooed woman with a nose ring is using a forklift to stack pallets.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Scientists in the Azores pulled the massive sunfish to shore, then raised it off the ground using a forklift.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• During the 2019 strike, GM asked some managers to drive forklifts at the warehouse to keep parts flowing.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Officers found the forklift heading south through the city and gave chase at speeds between 15 and 20 mph.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• Brown allegedly followed her, struck her with the forklift and ran over her.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 4 July 2023
• One of the suspects, wearing an orange safety vest, rams the forklift into the ATM, knocking it to the ground with a crash.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Kenneth Smith is a forklift driver and brought his son downtown by way of route 16 for his day off.
  — Dallas News, 27 June 2022
• When Bob Jones was able to return to the Newport site in August 2004, he was carried onto the stage by a forklift.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• According to the press release, Brown hit Pinkney’s car with the forklift, waking her up and prompting her to get out and run away.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
• Ahead of the pandas' farewell to the zoo, the Smithsonian said in a news release that forklifts will be used to move each of them into FedEx trucks.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
• The massive bust was raised by forklift onto a DC8 at an American air base in Italy.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
• The person shooting the video sprints down the street, away from the forklift, but the vehicle can then be seen driving down 8th Street toward Hill Street.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• There were two in the lower V, and the defense expert had found evidence of arcing in the other forklift.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2022
• He was discharged in August 1945 as a private first class, then worked as a forklift driver.
  — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• It can be updated without needing a forklift, and that is enabled by the cloud.
  — Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
• Working remotely might give him a new shot at a job driving a forklift.
  — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• So my boss asked me to grab the forklift, drag it across, and move the water barrier back into position.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
• Brown then chased after her with the forklift and ran her over before stealing her car and fleeing, police said.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024