Sentence examples for like a fork from inspiring English sources

CQ: The thing about reading things that are unfair or nasty is that they're like a fork in the road.

She took off her shoes, and, as she put it, "I felt like a fork in the toaster".

When Young won the first set in his third round match, he heaved his right arm up and down like a fork lift.

The behaviors of these future robotic objects may be utilitarian, like a lamp that bends to follow the items you reposition on a desk, or they may provide feedback, like a fork that vibrates when you're eating too fast.

One method, using a "pricking iron", which looks like a fork, is laborious and hard to get straight; the other uses a "pricking wheel" – like a pastry edger – which zips along neatly but is much less satisfying.

Oh no, the sex attack is thwarted by a child falling in a machine, mangling his arm, then being dragged upwards flailing by the gory remnants of flesh and bone, making a noise like a fork in a lawnmower.

Heartier appetites will appreciate the small selection of main courses like a fork-tender braised rabbit with polenta (16 euros).

Perhaps the best-known example of such a device is the exoskeleton seen in the film "Aliens", which allows the wearer to move heavy objects around, rather like a fork-lift truck.

"It's like a toothache right now, and it will turn into like getting a fork stuck on a filling," he said.

"The doctor said it was like sticking a fork in an egg".

She stabs it "a lot" to get the blood out, using "a big fork, like a barbeque fork".