tine

Example Sentences

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Differences in the concentrations of an odorant sensed by each tine of a snake’s forked tongue help the snake home in on quarry it can’t see.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2023

Public policy is another tine on the fork.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Ersson, a 23-year-old Swede, allowed five goals on 22 shots before Hart, who leads tine NHL in shots faced this season, replaced him.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2022

A minute later, he'd fish them out with the tine of a fork and pile them, dripping, onto the paper-towel-lined plate.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2021

Each tine struck a different Sixer avatar in the chest while somehow arcing harmlessly around everyone else.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline