How to Use forklift in a Sentence

forklift

noun
  • First the forks on the forklift were too small, and new ones had to be found.
    — Y Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The fish was weighed with a crane scale, by raising it with a forklift truck.
    — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • On the ground, someone is using a grinder on a large forklift.
    — NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
  • Cranes and forklifts were used to lift the sections into place.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Some weighed dozens of kilograms and required a forklift to move.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the bones were so heavy that researchers required a forklift to move them.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Stanley has spent the last five years driving forklifts.
    — Claire Rafford, IndyStar, 6 Jan. 2026
  • These snakes were so big that, once crated, a forklift had been needed to move them.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The forklift battery stayed in the system.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Stewart grew up in the Wylam area and worked as a forklift driver.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 18 Oct. 2022
  • An hour before kickoff, a forklift drove behind the south stands with a load of wood.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Brown allegedly followed her, struck her with the forklift and ran over her.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 4 July 2023
  • Witnesses told said the suspect broke in, stole the forklift and rammed through the gates.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 July 2023
  • One parked a forklift in front of the vehicle to keep it from moving and called police.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Off to the side, a tattooed woman with a nose ring is using a forklift to stack pallets.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The gator was euthanized and removed from the work site with the same forklift.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 27 May 2017
  • Workers use forklifts to carry the bales from the trucks to one of four lines for processing.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al.com, 19 June 2019
  • Small forklifts move beverage pallets here and there.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Gomes-Pereira and his team enlisted the help of a forklift to weigh and measure the fish.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • And within the last five years, her staff parked a forklift in the back of a garage door in a receiving area of the store.
    — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • It’s rippled across the docks to the trains, the trucks, the warehouses, the forklift drivers.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Holder took a forklift-driver job on the graveyard shift, with a cut in pay, to get away from Long.
    — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Use a forklift to transfer to a bun and top it with nearly 500 pounds of toppings.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2017
  • Workers used a forklift to move the RV out of the way to keep traffic moving.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Alas, the influx of jobs has not boosted wages for the region’s forklift drivers and order-fillers.
    — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Kenneth Smith is a forklift driver and brought his son downtown by way of route 16 for his day off.
    — Dallas News, 27 June 2022
  • Hollow Model 3 body frames are transported to the tent from the paint shop on forklifts.
    — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • The government department used a forklift to remove the shark from the boat for further study.
    — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • Scientists in the Azores pulled the massive sunfish to shore, then raised it off the ground using a forklift.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Of the pantries that have confirmed damage, some have lost entire pallets of food or crucial equipment like forklifts.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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