forkful
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forkfuls
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“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
Usually, I'd take just a tiny forkful to fulfill my obligations.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022
My forkful of chicken stir-fry froze halfway to my mouth.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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
But then each of them will only eat a few forkfuls.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
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
Clara helped her blow her nose and between sobs fed her forkfuls of pastry and sips of tea.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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