How to Use tuning fork in a Sentence

tuning fork

noun

• The finish lingers like the clear pitch of a tuning fork.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• Behind his miming, the windshield of the car was cracked in the shape of a tuning fork.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The first is plush velvet, the second taut and clear as a high C struck on a tuning fork.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• This quartz tuning fork responds to inertial forces and forms the heart of the GyroChip.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
• As in the movie, Black Bolt wears a tuning fork on his forehead to help channel his powers.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
• Each strap is two-pronged, like a tuning fork, so that the non-bra can be worn in at least twelve ways by twisting it this way and that.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
• The males' antennae act as tuning forks, resonating to the whine produced by the wings of females.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
• Some of the other items, meanwhile, will be passed on to friends who are much more excited by the prospect of, say, a (slightly banged-up) tuning fork and crystal set.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
• For instance, anything that vibrates 330 times in one second will produce an E note—a guitar string, a tuning fork or even a tire.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2021
• But even for such activists, Maausk resonates like a struck tuning fork: a reminder of a different notion of value.
  — Saul Elbein, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2020
• The pendulum guides her to smudge the room with sage before gently tapping orchestral gongs, tuning forks, and tinny bells.
  — Jessica Wright Weinstock, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2018
• Even in the best of times, markets are tuning forks not just for the sound of economic activity but for public sentiment about the future.
  — Zachary Karabell, Wired, 12 Mar. 2020
• His writing here is exquisitely judged and particular, yet always ringing to the same, just-out-of-audible-range tuning fork.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 June 2022
• For those seeking healing, massage add-ons like the tuning fork and sound bowls use vibrational energy to help the body recalibrate.
  — Anna Haines, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Helm has described the barn and the on-site Levon Helm Studios as a tuning fork for musicians, a magical conduit into the heart of creativity.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
• Similarly, the writeup also compares moonquake vibrations to those of a tuning fork, which is a kind of acoustic resonator.
  — Jessica Coulon, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2022
• Throughout the massage, the therapist explains the purpose of each chakra and the botanicals in the corresponding oil, and applies a tuning fork to pressure points to release stagnant energy.
  — Anna Haines, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Bailey remembers spending most of filming in a tuning fork, a mechanism that locks an actor into a harness that then can spin and rotate to emulate swimming.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Types of hearing loss can range from a slight loss to a total loss, and tests to diagnose the condition may include a physical exam, tuning fork tests, or other tests by audiologists.
  — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
• Try placing a ringing tuning fork atop your head, and your inner ear will pick up the sound, says Elizabeth Olson, an expert on hearing at Columbia University.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
• Monsieur Boltagon looks a lot like his ABC iteration except with a more comics-accurate outfit including the campy little tuning fork that adorns his mask like a hood ornament.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 6 May 2022
• Starting next week, the sound of Kondo’s delicate hand striking a crystal with a tuning fork to energetically clear a space will become a similarly ubiquitous mental device.
  — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
• The Collins—a gin sour lengthened with cold soda water—is perfect and complete and deeply resonant, summer’s own liquid tuning fork, preternaturally refreshing and infinitely repeatable.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 21 May 2022
• Prussian meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove is credited as the first person to note this phenomenon, detecting it in 1839 using tuning forks.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• This batch manufacturing, together with laser trimming and electronically programming calibration techniques, radically reduced the cost per tuning fork.
  — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024