How to Use prong in a Sentence

prong

noun
  • That was the for-hire prong of the crime.
    — Marcelena Spencer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The lower prong holds the knot.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • There’s a couple of prongs here.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Sue insists on putting the forks in prongs up.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The date code is engraved on the plug prongs.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The prongs were the biggest challenge for the team.
    — Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • First, put the casters and gas cylinder in the five-prong base.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
  • Medium to longer prongs, on the other hand, help dry and add shape to your ends.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The prongs are sharp enough to dig into meats and vegetables.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Congress rarely forces itself to demonstrate, item by item, that all five prongs are met.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Simply push the three-prong nail claw into the weed, twist, and pull the stubborn weed out.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And regardless of size, all stones are placed in a four-prong setting to keep them in place.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Those barbules, in turn, have even smaller features—lumpy nodes and prongs spaced along their length.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Putin sees Russia’s space program as one prong of that effort.
    — Kenneth Chang and Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Forget the skewers with prongs that attach to the end of the cobs and keep fingers clean.
    — Beth Dooley, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That improper drying can lead to a whisk with broken prongs, full of gunk.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Hoka draws a clear fork with the two prongs that form its super shoe lineup for road running.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Now, gasoline prices are dragging down the lower prong of the K, too.
    — Greg Iacurci,jessica Dickler, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The cause for Czechia’s hockey decline was the fall of the nation’s two prongs.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • At that point, the man stopped kicking, but the deputies didn’t remove the Taser prongs from his shirt.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • To use, slip the pointed prong underneath a bad stitch, then pull upward to cut the thread.
    — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The book satisfied the second prong.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Priests would even use cattle prongs to electrocute the children.
    — Brandi Morin, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Bonus points if the mask has a metal prong at the nose, similar to a surgical mask.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2022
  • England's Mason Mount has scored in his last two games (prong 1).
    — SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The gold prongs and stones have to be delicately inserted by hand, in fact.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The second and fourth fingers can become a prong that hammers out rapid patterns.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • An unsung hero of the surgical mask is the metal prong tucked into the seam at the bridge of the nose.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2022
  • When on a ladder, use a four-prong garden tool in a plowing motion to push leaves out of gutters.
    — Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026
  • In the Miller Test, all three prongs must be met to qualify a work as obscene.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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