forkful
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forkfuls
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In Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 comedy-drama film “City Lights,” a forkful of spaghetti gets tangled with and mistakenly eaten alongside a long party streamer.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
“I love eating,” she says, taking a forkful of her miso salmon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
These tiny worms twist together by the thousands to form tightly packed blobs reminiscent of a forkful of squirming spaghetti.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023
His experience builds on work with a prior volunteer, who was also paralyzed in the arms and legs, and managed to lift a forkful of mashed potatoes to his mouth with the system.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Hammie waves around a forkful of waffle and nods at the image displayed in midair before us.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
This Cancer season, allow yourself to plunge into deep, heaping forkfuls of the comfort your heart yearns for — treating yourself like a delicate alloy of light and spirit will make you strong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2024
This salad is all about big forkfuls of vegetables; the plump chickpeas, which are suffused with warm coriander and bright orange zest, lend a delightful crunch.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Help yourself to heaping forkfuls of comforting fettuccine alfredo, the writers seemed to say, with a side of nachos, egg rolls and something called “Buffalo Blasts.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021
Chickpeas and rice, which she ate, standing, alone in the crowd, in minute forkfuls, like a bird, before receiving a gaggle of third-graders in snowsuits.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
Little potatoes with hot cores into which he and Marie-Laure would plunge forkfuls of butter.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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