How to Use ford in a Sentence

ford

verb

• The TRD Pro can ford streams up to 26 inches deep, so this was not much of a challenge for it.
  — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 3 June 2017
• If the tide is less than 33.6 inches up your doors, this Wrangler can ford it.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 22 July 2022
• Only one of them has to worry about whether or not her team of oxen can ford the river.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2017
• Ram says the half-ton Hellcat can also ford up to 32 inches of water.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• Either ford the Inhulets River on the western edge of the sector, or the Dnipro River on the southern edge.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The OvrlandX concept could ford up to 32.1 inches of water.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2021
• The idea is to slow down an attacker by forcing them to ford the river or position a new bridge.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Oh, and just in case you get caught fording a deep river, these lights are waterproof to a depth of almost 10 feet.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 25 Nov. 2019
• After fording a creek and burrowing under a barbed wire fence, the men came face to face with a herd of cattle.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• Those of us headed out the next morning had to ford the stream — with or without shoes, which made for a good conversation starter.
  — Mike Eckel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• Sam will topple over in the middle of fording a river if his fast-draining stamina gauge runs out.
  — Adrian Chen, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• It wasn’t expected that a civilian or even standard-police SUV could ford the floods — and the water was rising.
  — Colin Warren-Hicks, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
• To continue on the trail, which leads to a waterfall, hikers needed to ford the 20-foot wide stream on slippery boulders.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• To get there, Maldonado had to ford a river in knee-deep water, using a cable to guide him across.
  — Ivan Watson, Jo Shelley and Patrick Gillespie, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• At its highest setting, the Cullinan can ford up to 21.6 inches of water.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• The Jeep was compact enough to carry in gliders, could ford rivers with ease, and was extremely reliable.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2021
• Before long, a community once known as a place to ford the river was a key stop on a growing railroad network.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Its power plant and suspension would rather avoid fording streams or two-stepping over rocks.
  — John Scott Lewinski, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2018
• Will the misdirected Håkan ford the Mississippi and pass Huck Finn lighting out the other way?
  — Lawrence Downes, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• The Carthaginians funneled the Iberian tribes into narrow crossings where the river’s swift waters were shallow enough to ford on foot.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
• Early in the evacuation, as the parents grapple with things like having to ford a river that is mined with bombs, Sovanh runs off and gets lost in the endless throngs.
  — Kenneth Turan, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
• That will return the river to patterns recorded in the pre-Soviet era, when in hot summers some parts of the Dnipro became so shallow it could be forded.
  — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
• The Forest Service no longer installs a seasonal footbridge, so hikers can either ford the river or cross the large log at the main crossing.
  — oregonlive, 30 July 2022
• But after fording fast rivers, trekking through forest and braving mountain roads, the journalist found him.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• But its approach and departure angles do call for care when traversing ruts, fording streams and cresting hills.
  — Larry Printz, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2019
• Along the way, as any one-time player well knows, a variety of challenges present themselves, from hunting for food to fording rivers and avoiding diseases.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2017
• Along the way, as any one-time player well knows, a variety of challenges present themselves, from hunting for food to fording rivers and avoiding diseases.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2017
• Turned back at the bridge in at the border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, some the migrants forded the river and were met with violence by National Guard troops.
  — Dudley Althaus, ExpressNews.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• The families ford rivers, search for water, and watch their covered wagons crash down a hill, spilling their meager possessions into the dry dirt.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 29 July 2017
• Prior to the war, Russia’s intention to advance via this road could be seen by the building of a pontoon bridge to ford a river on the Belarussian side of the border across from Chernobyl.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024