forkful
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The result is improbably green, deeply herby and just tangy enough to keep you going back for another forkful.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 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
Some even say that a well-made pasta dish, where the noodles and sauce have become one, isn’t going to splatter around the table and onto your shirt as you pick up a forkful.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
He’d just put a forkful of hot potato in his mouth and couldn’t speak.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
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
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
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
In the kitchen, when the manager wasn’t looking, she ate the leftover wedges of toast and cold forkfuls of scrambled eggs from the plates instead of scraping them into the garbage.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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