How to Use tuning fork in a Sentence

tuning fork

noun
  • The finish lingers like the clear pitch of a tuning fork.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Behind his miming, the windshield of the car was cracked in the shape of a tuning fork.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The first is plush velvet, the second taut and clear as a high C struck on a tuning fork.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • This quartz tuning fork responds to inertial forces and forms the heart of the GyroChip.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
  • As in the movie, Black Bolt wears a tuning fork on his forehead to help channel his powers.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • Each strap is two-pronged, like a tuning fork, so that the non-bra can be worn in at least twelve ways by twisting it this way and that.
    Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
  • The males' antennae act as tuning forks, resonating to the whine produced by the wings of females.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • Some of the other items, meanwhile, will be passed on to friends who are much more excited by the prospect of, say, a (slightly banged-up) tuning fork and crystal set.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
  • For instance, anything that vibrates 330 times in one second will produce an E note—a guitar string, a tuning fork or even a tire.
    Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2021
  • But even for such activists, Maausk resonates like a struck tuning fork: a reminder of a different notion of value.
    Saul Elbein, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The pendulum guides her to smudge the room with sage before gently tapping orchestral gongs, tuning forks, and tinny bells.
    Jessica Wright Weinstock, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Even in the best of times, markets are tuning forks not just for the sound of economic activity but for public sentiment about the future.
    Zachary Karabell, Wired, 12 Mar. 2020
  • His writing here is exquisitely judged and particular, yet always ringing to the same, just-out-of-audible-range tuning fork.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 June 2022
  • For those seeking healing, massage add-ons like the tuning fork and sound bowls use vibrational energy to help the body recalibrate.
    Anna Haines, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Helm has described the barn and the on-site Levon Helm Studios as a tuning fork for musicians, a magical conduit into the heart of creativity.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
  • Similarly, the writeup also compares moonquake vibrations to those of a tuning fork, which is a kind of acoustic resonator.
    Jessica Coulon, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Bailey remembers spending most of filming in a tuning fork, a mechanism that locks an actor into a harness that then can spin and rotate to emulate swimming.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Types of hearing loss can range from a slight loss to a total loss, and tests to diagnose the condition may include a physical exam, tuning fork tests, or other tests by audiologists.
    Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Try placing a ringing tuning fork atop your head, and your inner ear will pick up the sound, says Elizabeth Olson, an expert on hearing at Columbia University.
    Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Monsieur Boltagon looks a lot like his ABC iteration except with a more comics-accurate outfit including the campy little tuning fork that adorns his mask like a hood ornament.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 6 May 2022
  • Starting next week, the sound of Kondo’s delicate hand striking a crystal with a tuning fork to energetically clear a space will become a similarly ubiquitous mental device.
    Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The Collins—a gin sour lengthened with cold soda water—is perfect and complete and deeply resonant, summer’s own liquid tuning fork, preternaturally refreshing and infinitely repeatable.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 21 May 2022
  • This batch manufacturing, together with laser trimming and electronically programming calibration techniques, radically reduced the cost per tuning fork.
    Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022

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