Example Sentences

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The moving tribute pitchforked the reclusive artist and his works onto the global stage.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2023

“Once that mob is going, we’ve just got to cave in to what the mob is saying. You don’t want to get pitchforked yourself.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

Tortorella said the questionable officiating “started with the noncall when Gaby’s walking in and gets pitchforked in the stomach, and then everything starts going against us.”

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2012

The devil finds work for idle actors, and this week he's pitchforked Nicolas Cage and Anthony Hopkins into satanic horror movies.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2011

And if you had been pitchforked out as I've been after all my years of honest service you'd feel just as I do, Captain Mayo.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman