Sentence examples for pitchfork from inspiring English sources
The word "pitchfork" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a farming tool with a long handle and several metal tines. For example: "The farmer used a pitchfork to evenly spread the hay."
verb
To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
The capacity and willingness to drive people along with the use of the pitchfork of threatened redundancy or the flaming torch of disciplinary action does not make a leader and the mere fact that you so brazenly call yourselves leaders is evidence of the malaise that prompts me to write.
The buzz: "It's the kind of music that makes you believe there is a Heaven, and that this is what it must sound like" – Pitchfork.
The passionate intensity has come instead from the opponents of the round, such as South Korean rice farmers, who want to keep their market shut tight, or Texan cotton growers, who want to hang on to their handouts.Why have globalisation's biggest beneficiaries been so slow to look up from their BlackBerries and take on the pitchfork protectionists?
"Pitchfork" Pat Buchanan demonstrated the strength of the nativist streak in the Republican Party back in 1992, when he won 37% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary against "King George Bushh.
In a weak and divided field it is hard to imagine a supporter of Mr Paul succumbing to Mr Santorum's religiosity, or a fan of Mr Romney's country-club Republicanism finding much to like in Mrs Bachmann's pitchfork populism room exists for an all-things-to-all-men candidate such as Mr Perry.Democrats should take no comfort from that divided field.
But I wanted to bring the pitchfork through even that, you know.
"From Dublin to Lublin, from Portugal to Pomerania, the pitchfork-wielding populists are converging on the Breydel building in Brussels – drunk on local hooch and chanting nationalist slogans and preparing to give the federalist machinery a good old kicking with their authentically folkloric clogs," Boris Johnson wrote in the Telegraph on Monday.
Another test of its capacity to resist pitchfork-wielding urges will come in the next few weeks, when it is expected to issue guidelines on executive pay.The stiffest resistance to change is coming not from Wall Street but from Washington, DC, where government officials, regulators and congressional leaders are locked in turf wars and ideological battles.
Similarly, would conservative Christian voters turn out in the same numbers for a country-club Republican like Mr Romney or a libertarian like Mr Paul as they would for a pitchfork-populist like Ms Bachmann?
(Frustration is showing in the popularity of Oleh Lyashko, a pitchfork-wielding populist seen as a clown but expected to finish second nonetheless).Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers still at the front are unable to vote.
While I can see how outside interests banks or pitchfork-waving constituents, say might lean on legislators in order to constrain the process of reform, it strikes me as bizarre that the Comptroller of the Currency qua the Comptroller of the Currency has any influence to throw around.
