How to Use spork in a Sentence

spork

noun
  • When the white is two-thirds cooked, use a spork to flip the egg.
    — Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online, 22 June 2020
  • The spork's wiry handle is steel, as well.
    — C.c. Weiss may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2026
  • But in its basic form, the spork had been born.
    — James Stout, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The jar includes a nifty stainless-steel spork and easy-grip wrap.
    — Briana Riddock, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Artibeus schwartzi is a fusion bat - a sort of fuzzy, winged spork.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2010
  • One of her favorite dishes is a Frito pie served with a spork.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2020
  • There's arguably no greater advance in the world of cutlery than the spork.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
  • All items come with their own mesh bag, including the collapsible spork.
    — Popular Science, 7 July 2020
  • The compostable sporks only enhance my nostalgia for public school lunch.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2022
  • But for lunch, each student received a packet with a napkin, straw and a spork, a combination of a spoon and a fork.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2021
  • There are enough plates, bowls and sporks to accommodate four people and our pros like how efficiently all the parts nested together.
    — Sara Tane, goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
  • Readers could buy their own sporks by sending one dollar and two syrup labels to the Karo Syrup Company.
    — James Stout, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The gasoline that enlivens car engines, the jet fuel that takes planes to the sky, the plastic spork that rides in your takeout bag—it may have been born somewhere along that coastline.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • One little poke from a spork, stick, or rock and its waterproofing capabilities are compromised.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 1 May 2020
  • Gerber upgrades the iconic spork with its all-new Devour Titanium.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The sparrows’s only choice to set themselves free is to solve a riddle and find the Great Jewel, which will require teamwork, trust and most of all spork skills.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The conversation was sparked by the brothers playing a cartoon depicting Jason getting expelled from preschool for stabbing someone with a spork.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • The latest version features the same classic spork silhouette with nine total functions, including a can opener, flathead drivers, a scraper, and even a kickstand feature.
    — Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 12 July 2022
  • On the back of the spork Gerber cleverly attached a small multi-tool that adds almost no weight or bulk but comes with a couple handy tools, including a bottle and can opener, and two flathead screwdrivers.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 13 June 2022
  • Today, three-quarters of a century after Big Spork entered the corporate landscape, spork patents and trademarks are long expired or genericized.
    — James Stout, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Remember Bonnie, the adorable five-year-old who inherited Andy’s old toys and, in a stroke of brilliance, invented one of her own by gluing a pair of googly eyes onto a cheap white spork?
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 June 2026
  • By the early 1990s, all but the earliest Beetles were regarded as throw-away utensils—the plastic spork of cars—long before recycling was a concept.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Not only did the Veep star make the final cut of the 2019 film, but his character, Forky, a talking spork, played a pivotal role in the Oscar-winning film.
    — Mark Gray, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Oppo, jedi, adorbs, dox variant doxxed, eggcorn (a misheard slip of the ear), fintech, folx (inclusive alternative to folks), grawlix, hangry, matcha, onesie, spork, swole, unmalted, vaquita, vax and vaxxed were added.
    — Leanne Italie, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The 30-fl oz (900-ml) pot, windscreen and spork body are all crafted from titanium, while the stove includes titanium components, an aluminum alloy body, and a stainless-steel burn head and pot supports.
    — C.c. Weiss may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2026
  • Learn about Outside Online's affiliate link policy The journey to the titanium spork wound through Hollywood, forks with knives for handles, and a bizarre American craze for turtle soup.
    — James Stout, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Forky’s introduction came in Toy Story 4, starting life as a plastic spork who was then fashioned into a toy thanks to some artful placement of pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks by Buzz and Woody’s current kid, Bonnie.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026
  • Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the product is made by British outdoor gear manufacturer Septem Studio, which previously brought us a device that combines a knife, spork and bottle opener in one utensil.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2024
  • From the sporks to the soaring butter-yellow and lavender walls of the warehouse dining room to the parade of telescope-shape dosas that march out of the kitchen, Vik’s embodies spectacle in the same manner as the House of Prime Rib, with its metal beef carts and martini shakers.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2022
  • In the one that opens the film, Forky (Tony Hale), the googly-eyed spork, marries a plastic knife called Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor), a name so perfectly unmelodious that only a kid, or an adult exceptionally good at thinking like one, could have concocted it.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

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