How to Use forklift in a Sentence

forklift

noun

• For one thing, a forklift is needed just to move the beast.
  — Dan Nosowitz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• Central Standard used a neighbor's garage to store its forklift.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2017
• David, the son of a bank vice-president, was the sales manager for a forklift supplier.
  — Jesse Barron, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
• Another forklift whizzes by, carrying steaming cans of salmon.
  — Anjuli Grantham, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
• The mirror weighs around 17 tons, and using a standard crane or forklift could risk damaging the mirror.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2017
• The roof of an industrial building partly collapsed, killing a 22-year-old forklift worker.
  — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• Eating noodles is the easiest way to forklift as many delicious carbs into your mouth at once, making them a national favorite.
  — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 6 Oct. 2017
• The forklift stops in a corridor within a corrugated metal warehouse.
  — Anjuli Grantham, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
• Gantz is a forklift driver for R L Carriers in Wilmington.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2017
• People who have pumpkins too heavy for one person to carry that require a forklift may bring them to Melzen's the morning of Sept. 30.
  — Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
• In one of JD’s huge warehouses outside Shanghai, men still operate forklifts, but by the end of the year robots will take over.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Luckily, a local construction company volunteered the use of its forklift.
  — Olivia Dimmer, OregonLive.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Gantz is a forklift driver for R+L Carriers in Wilmington.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2017
• Still, lack of infrastructure is a major problem for fuel cell vehicles that aren’t use-specific (like forklifts in Amazon warehouses).
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2017
• Matthew 25: Ministries President Tim Mettey is out in the warehouse operating a forklift to help.
  — Chuck Gibson, Cincinnati.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ohio’s Akron Art Museum, which owns the piece, has been forced to rely upon a forklift in order to install it.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024