Example Sentences

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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

Using the technology, people with paralysis or other disabilities have lifted a cinnamon latte with a robotic arm in 2011, typed letters quoting Shakespeare in 2012 and lifted forkfuls of mashed potatoes in 2016.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

It tastes like Thanksgivings home from college in the Chicago suburbs, and the mornings after, when we'd steal a few forkfuls for breakfast with coffee.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2021

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

It shouldn’t have surprised me that peculiar children have peculiar eating habits, but between forkfuls of food I found myself sneaking glances around the room.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs