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Example sentences for "pitchfork"

Lexicographically close words:
pitchblende; pitched; pitcher; pitchers; pitches; pitchforked; pitchforks; pitching; pitchstone; pitcht
  1. We rowed in close to where he was and watched them pitchfork awhile and then Swatty backwatered the skiff up to where the judge was standing and said: "Say, mister judge!

  2. Some of them get so scared they try to swim right up on shore on their bellies, and some try to swim out into deep water, but whatever they try to do the farmers just pitchfork them up onto shore.

  3. There are three there, Bill, with a jolly large blue unicorn and gold pitchfork on 'em: which is the old lady's arms.

  4. The scythe, the hand rake, the pitchfork in the calloused hands of men and boys did the work, occasionally the women even taking a turn with the rake or in mowing away.

  5. That was the day of the scythe and the good mower, of the cradle and the good cradler, of the pitchfork and the good pitcher.

  6. Minot speaks of the passage of one prong of a pitchfork through the body of a man of twenty-one, from the perineum to the umbilicus; the man recovered.

  7. She's broke the pitchfork off short, to use in the drive, and I believe she's coming down.

  8. A pitchfork might not be of much use against "ha'nts," but it was a comforting sort of weapon.

  9. Susan departed for Rainbow Valley, valiantly grasping a pitchfork which she found leaning against the back fence where the doctor had been working in his little hay-field.

  10. Susan marched boldly through it and beyond it, and rapped with her pitchfork on the door of the little cottage on the other side, where Mrs. Stimson lived with her two daughters.

  11. I'll stick a pitchfork through you, and if a pitchfork goes through you, it will go through me too.

  12. I had just time to get out of the way; the pitchfork stuck into a bath made of oak, and they had much trouble to get it out.

  13. He caught up a pitchfork and flung it at me.

  14. Up jumped the carter, down came his pitchfork with a thud.

  15. Clump, clump, he came upstairs, with his pitchfork prongs gleaming over his head like lanceheads.

  16. And presently we did pass a narrow lane, and at the mouth on't espied a written stone, telling beggars by a word like a wee pitchfork to go that way.

  17. The tines of the heavy pitchfork pierced the coils, and the only whirr which sounded was the whirr of iron against the rock.

  18. A many-tined pitchfork rested against one of the sheds.

  19. She was very white when she reached the kitchen after depositing the pitchfork and its burden by the shed.

  20. Priscilla, on the rock below, held the handle of the pitchfork firmly, and tried not to look at her victim as he writhed in agony.

  21. Bring a pistol--and, Mort, you get a couple of axes and a pitchfork or two.

  22. Moreover, he changed the bedding in her stall on Saturdays, employing a pitchfork and a spade.

  23. Every other week he went out to the stable, and after closing the doors, proceeded to belabour an old saddle with a pitchfork handle.

  24. The young man dropped his pitchfork and came toward her.

  25. Scythe and pitchfork did their work well.

  26. A pitchfork with a short handle, a scythe set in a stick, make the best of boarding-pikes.

  27. But if there's a smoker going on in there, why was Pitchfork tipped off?

  28. I've been all over that stuff, and I know what Pitchfork will try to stick you on.

  29. We'll stand for anything short of setting fire to the college, and we'll throw in a hazing of Pitchfork if it's possible.

  30. Your rushing in from your peaceful pastoral pursuits in the barn, with a pitchfork in one hand and the girl in the other, and dear old mammy sympathizing all round and trying to make everything comfortable.

  31. So he did what the Princess had taught him, turned the pitchfork round, and worked with the handle, and in the twinkling of an eye the stable was as clean as if it had been scoured.

  32. But I will teach you how to do it; you must turn your pitchfork upside down, and work with the handle, and then all will fly out of its own accord.

  33. We all stood by and watched admiringly while Fuchs rode into the corral with a pitchfork and prodded the bulls again and again, finally driving them apart.

  34. While grandmother took the pitchfork we found standing in one of the rows and dug potatoes, while I picked them up out of the soft brown earth and put them into the bag, I kept looking up at the hawks that were doing what I might so easily do.

  35. Beside her, from the summer heat To share her grateful screening, With forehead bared, the farmer stood, Upon his pitchfork leaning.

  36. He stuck his pitchfork in the ground, picked up his coat, and went slowly in to dinner.

  37. Haven't got a pitchfork you can lend a neighbor, have ye?


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitchfork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bowl; buffer; cast; catapult; chuck; dart; dash; fire; fling; flip; fork; heave; hurl; hurtle; instrument; jerk; lance; lathe; launch; pass; peg; pelt; pitch; point; put; serve; shy; sling; snap; throw; tilt; tool; toss