forked

IPA: fˈɔrkt

Examples of "forked" in Sentences

The thunder pealed, and the lightning lit the sky in forked darts.
III. iii.276 (443,9) forked plague] In allusion to a _barbed_ or _forked_ arrow, which, once infixed, cannot be extracted.
Having paid Carey over $15 million for Glitter, the label forked out an additional $28 million to void the remaining contract.
To start with, there are the animals that die after getting their necks caught in forked branches, as has been recorded for both giraffes and deer.
This is what I call a forked reading because you can see that the possible futures "- I tapped the Three of Swords and the Nine of Pentacles -" are wildly split.
The regulars triangulate their positions using landmarks invisible to the casual anglers: a certain forked tree, a faded white sign that once warned of dangerous currents, a particular stone on the Virginia side known as the Lowell Rock.
In the following year the antlers take the form shown in Fig. 4, and then follows the antler shown in Fig. 5, _a_, which generally has "forks" in place of points, and is known as forked antler in contradistinction to the point antler shown in Fig. 5, _b_, which retains the shape of the antler, Fig. 4, but has additional or intermediate prongs or branches.