Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: forks
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹks]
Usage examples
  • Along both forks strips of meadow extend almost to their heads.
  • Take care! he will make of the first Rue Grenetat which comes to hand Caudine Forks.
  • He paused, and with a glance of apology began arranging forks and glasses before him on the cloth.
  • The spoons and forks were out of Mrs. Carbuncle's power,--in Albemarle Street; and the money had of course been spent.
  • They resulted in nothing. Lizzie was desirous of getting back the spoons and forks, and, if possible, some of her money.
  • About a fourth of the canoes that attempt to come up are lost in the rapids which extend from Fort Yale nearly to the Forks.
  • "To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; To pursue it with forks and hope; To threaten its life with a railway-share; To charm it with smiles and soap!
  • They had taken a slow ship for Momsey's benefit and the expected re-telegraphed cablegram was looked for at the Forks for a week before it possibly could come.
  • Tracing the river, we find that it forks a mile above the Soda Springs, the main fork turning southward to Mount Lyell, the other eastward to Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs.
  • They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.