forkful
Americannoun
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forkfuls
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It’s a salad that can sit in the fridge for days without losing its snap, yet it’s never inert: a forkful zings, a little sweet, a little tart, a little green, a little peppery.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
“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
“She’s at home,” I said, putting a forkful of cake in my mouth to stop myself from having to give out any more details than were absolutely necessary.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
Conversations in between forkfuls weren’t about the Dallas Stars losing momentum or the Colorado Avalanche getting back in to the second-round series.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2020
Then, between forkfuls, tell me why we shouldn’t bring them back.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2019
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
On Saturday afternoon Billy Buck, the ranch-hand, raked together the last of the old year’s haystack and pitched small forkfuls over the wire fence to a few mildly interested cattle.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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