How to Use forklift in a Sentence

forklift

noun

• First the forks on the forklift were too small, and new ones had to be found.
  — Y Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• For one thing, a forklift is needed just to move the beast.
  — Dan Nosowitz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• On the ground, someone is using a grinder on a large forklift.
  — NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• 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
• Cranes and forklifts were used to lift the sections into place.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• That means renting a flatbed truck for the day along with a forklift, Cohen said.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Some weighed dozens of kilograms and required a forklift to move.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 1 Feb. 2023
• Use a forklift to transfer to a bun and top it with nearly 500 pounds of toppings.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2017
• The gator was euthanized and removed from the work site with the same forklift.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 27 May 2017
• At the halfway mark, the group came upon a mangled forklift.
  — Victoria Kim, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• These snakes were so big that, once crated, a forklift had been needed to move them.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Workers use forklifts to carry the bales from the trucks to one of four lines for processing.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al.com, 19 June 2019
• 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
• Holder took a forklift-driver job on the graveyard shift, with a cut in pay, to get away from Long.
  — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Workers used two forklifts to load it onto a flatbed truck.
  — Anne Steele, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Carter also kept a steady job as a laborer and forklift driver at the Port of Indiana until his conviction, the lawyer said.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2024
• The roof of an industrial building partly collapsed, killing a 22-year-old forklift worker.
  — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024