Example Sentences

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A year ago the Ewing Farm subdivision, northeast of Atlanta, had only about two dozen homes on a forklike arrangement of cul-de-sacs that was originally laid out for 80.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2013

In the eighth or ninth century, some Persian nobility may have used a forklike tool.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2012

Misery of the most exquisite kind 252 was tearing her heart in pieces, stabbing her throat with long, forklike pains.

From Rose O'Paradise by White, Grace Miller