tine

Example Sentences

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Another tine on the French fork is the urban agriculture project to educate Parisian schoolchildren and their families about food — where it comes from and what it takes to bring it to their plates.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

Pull out the black vein using the tine of a fork or the point of a bamboo skewer.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023

Differences in the concentrations of an odorant sensed by each tine of a snake’s forked tongue help the snake home in on quarry it can’t see.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2023

Ersson, a 23-year-old Swede, allowed five goals on 22 shots before Hart, who leads tine NHL in shots faced this season, replaced him.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2022

I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou