How to Use pitchfork in a Sentence

pitchfork

noun

• He’ll be crushed by the pitchfork crowd, and who wants to hang around to watch that?
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• Take your forks and knives — and heck, your pitchforks, too — and dig in!
  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2016
• Once the foliage has died to the ground, take a pitchfork, loosen the soil around the plants, and lift them out.
  — Erin Benzakein With Julie Chai, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2017
• Part of Ryan's pitch has been to put away the pitchforks and modulate the tone.
  — Philip Elliott / Youngstown, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
• But a worker still fluffs the pine straw with a pitchfork to shake free any dirt and leaves.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• The post and the false allegation brought out the pitchforks.
  — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• In the black frame was a black and white pic of the pair dressed for farm work holding a chicken and a pitchfork.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
• A pitchfork is placed in a golf bag handle down, same as a golf club.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 12 June 2017
• Though the resulting image cut off the tines of the pitchfork.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2022
• Two men, one armed with a pitchfork and the other with a hoe, began to chase 16-year-old Shirley.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
• And still, not a pitchfork or torch in sight of the U.S. Supreme Court building, all these years later.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2020
• When the rabble show up with pitchforks and torches, the queen comes to the balcony and quiets them.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 23 June 2017
• Stir the pile with a pitchfork every few days to keep the oxygen level high.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2021
• Remove stakes, cut the dead plant material to the ground, and use a pitchfork to loosen the area around the tubers.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• The helmet used as part of the combination is gold with a black pitchfork and a black stripe.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2021
• Pitchfork has the full text of the complaint, which was filed in New York federal court last night.
  — Anna Gaca, Billboard, 4 May 2017
• It will be met with pitchforks and torches and white-hot Twitter takes.
  — Nick Moyle, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• Lift the tubers gently out of the ground with your pitchfork, shake off excess dirt, and place gently on the ground.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• One of the survivors, Salome (Claire Foy), attacks the men with a pitchfork and, for their own safety, the rapists are moved to a jail in town.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Welcome to the new crop of farm retreats, pitchforks not required.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2023
• Those who knew enough to care deeply about file formats and the future of the web were marching on the gates, armed with PNGs of torches and pitchforks.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2016
• The fun starts when a feral savage with a pitchfork stitched onto his arm joins the party.
  — NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
• The only legal way to obtain one is with a spear: Think six-foot-long, 15-pound, five-pronged pitchfork.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 6 Feb. 2017
• When Prince George is older, his parents will tell him the story of the one time the whole world rushed to his defence with pitchforks and tweets.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• The logo, which combines the pitchfork and a halo pays homage to Sun Devil supporters of the past and present.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
• Where would toxic philanthropists be without the arts to stave off the pitchforks?
  — Rhonda Lieberman, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
• Wearing a Mets blue-and-orange mitt with an image of a ghost and a pitchfork, Senga (2-0) walked three and whiffed six.
  — Mike Fitzpatrick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• If the person who bought the building didn’t know or didn’t care, there would be riots in the street, and Astrid would carry the biggest pitchfork.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Then, turn the compost with a pitchfork or shovel at least once a week and patiently wait for the process to be complete.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• Armed with machetes and pitchforks, these fighters seized a cache of muskets, then burned down a mansion.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024