tine
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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
Russell made 11 of 12 field goals and 4 of 5 3-pointers to help the Timberwolves beat the Thunder for second tine in three nights.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 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
I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
In Tayari Jones’s novel, two childhood friends in 1950s Louisiana take “different tines at the fork in the road.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The stag's antlers, now fully hardened and velvet‑free, regrow each spring, becoming more impressive with each year as new points called tines develop.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Pulvar’s projects are like the tines of a fork, several in number but working toward the same aims of nutrition and environmental responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
“This sounds trite at this point, but in true Italian-American style, some of my earliest memories are helping my nonna roll gnocchi down the tines of a fork,” she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
Interspersed among their ranks were a dozen battle forklifts, their sharpened tines gleaming in the sunset and flaming bolts nocked in their crossbows.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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