Forked Sentence Examples

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  • She forked some hay into each of the stalls and checked the herd again.

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  • Spherical sacs, bearing forked spines, described by Williamson under the name of Zygosporites, are frequent, usually in an isolated state.

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  • In Sphenophyllum majus, where the cones are less sharply defined, the forked bract bears a group of four sporangia at the bifurcations, but their mode of insertion has not yet been made out.

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  • Two leaf-trace bundles started from each angle of the stele, and forked, in passing through the cortex, to supply the veins of the leaf, or its subdivisions.

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  • It consists of a comparatively small and repeatedly forked axis bearing in each fork a flower; the flowers, which are regarded as male and female, appear to be similar to those of Bennettites.

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  • The genus Rana may be defined as firmisternal Ecaudata with cylindrical transverse processes to the sacral vertebra, teeth in the upper jaw and on the vomer, a protrusible tongue which is free and forked behind, a horizontal pupil and more or less webbed toes.

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  • The passageway continued beyond where Martha had ventured and the Deans continued another hundred yards but once more the passageway forked.

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  • The wings exhibit six longitudinal veins (seven in Heptaphlebomyia), two of which are characteristically forked.

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  • Tongue slightly forked.

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  • The characteristic of this family - as represented by the prongbuck - is that the sheath of the horns is forked, and shed annually, or every few years.

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  • There are various cultivated forms - cristata has the ends of the fronds and the pinnae finely crested, and corymbifera has curiously forked and crested fronds.

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  • The female, on the other hand, weighs only 2 lb, its plumage is of a russet brown colour irregularly barred with black, and its tail feathers are but slightly forked.

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  • Ichthydidae, without forked.

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  • Pachytheca is formed of cellular filaments resembling those of a Cladophora, irregularly interwoven in the central region, radiating towards the periphery, and often forked.

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  • In the oldest known Calamarian, however, Archaeocalamites (Devonian and Lower Carboniferous), the leaves were repeatedly forked.

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  • The serpent raised its ugly head, the beady black eyes measuring Megan as its tiny forked tongue flicked in her direction.

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  • Players used to play them with different forked fingerings or tone-holes only half closed.

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  • His air of being on the point of shooting out forked lightning left him.

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  • With a sharp crack a bolt of brilliant white lightning forked across the sky toward us.

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  • So the map was of little help when the path forked into two steep scree runs.

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  • A being with horns and a forked tail is a myth.

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  • The second set turns to a moment of reptilian horror when A forked tongue is tasting the air above the lip of the well.

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  • He had not gone farther than to the end of the innkeeper's field, when to his surprise he found that the road forked.

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  • The males have 8 showy stamen s, the females a forked style.

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  • As it turns out, Rich also claimed that Jared Ashley and cohort Chris Seiver attempted to blackmail Rich by promising to drop the assault and harassment charges if Rich forked over nearly three million dollars to them.

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  • The blossoms, borne on forked stems rising considerably above the foliage, are dark purple.

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  • Cup-flower (Scyphanthus) - S. elegans is a beautiful slender climber, 5 to 8 feet high, with forked stems, and valuable for trailing over a trellis or against a wall.

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  • The flower-stem is forked near the summit, and carries two or three heads of flowers, six to eight blooms on each, of a brown-orange color.

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  • In each case, the creature didn't have the forked tongue that El Chupacabra is rumored to have.

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  • El Chupacabra is believed to be a creature that is a unique combination of a dog-like head and body with a reptile-like appearance including a forked tongue.

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  • He forked a steak off the serving tray and handed the tray to her.

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  • The tongue in snakes is narrow, almost worm-like, generally of a black colour and forked, that is, it terminates in front in two extremely fine filaments.

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  • Though planetae decorated with narrow orphreys are occasionally met with in the monuments of the early centuries, these vestments were until the 10th century generally quite plain, and even at the close of this century, when the custom of decorating the chasuble with orphreys had become common, there was no definite rule as to their disposition; sometimes they were merely embroidered borders to the neck-opening or hem, sometimes a vertical strip down the back, less often a forked cross, the arms of which turned upwards over the shoulders.

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  • About the middle of the 13th century, the cross with horizontal arms begins to appear on the back of the vestment, and by the 15th this had become the most usual form, though the forked cross also survived - e.g.

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  • The taste is mucilaginous, sweetish and slightly bitter and aromatic. The root is frequently forked, and it is probably owing to this circumstance that medicinal properties were in the first place attributed to it, its resemblance to the body of a man being supposed to indicate that it could restore virile power to the aged and impotent.

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  • But while the banner was square the pennon, which resembled it in other respects, was either pointed or forked at its extremity, and the pencel, which was considerably less than the others, always terminated in a single tail or streamer.6 If indeed we look at the scale of chivalric subordination from another point of view, it seems to be more properly divisible into four than into three stages, of which two may be called provisional and two final.

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  • The covering of leaves or litter should be taken off bulbs and tender plants that were covered up for winter, so that the beds can be lightly forked and raked.

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  • Whatever be the ultimate verdict, the association of antlers - and these, be it noticed, conforming almost exactly with the forked type characteristic of American deer - with an antilopine type of skull, skeleton and teeth in Merycodus is a most interesting and unexpected feature.

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  • The fish resembles a sprat in having a forked tail and a single dorsal fin, but the body is round and slender.

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  • Both species of Xema are readily distinguished from all other gulls by their forked tails.

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  • Selby, properly belonging, at least in the Fame Islands, to the species known by the book-name of Sandwich tern, all the others being those called sea-swallows - a name still most commonly given to the whole group throughout Britain from their long wings, forked tail and marine habit.

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  • Towards the end of the body both neural and haemal arches are continued into forked radial cartilages, which support a median fin.

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  • Antlers arising at acute angles to the median line of the skull (as in the following genera), at first projecting from the plane of the forehead, and then continued upwards nearly in that plane, supported on short pedicles, and furnished with a brow-tine, never regularly forked at first division, but generally of large size, and with not less than three tines; the skull without ridges on the frontals forming the bases of the pedicles of the antlers.

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  • All these differ from the members of the genus Cervus in having no brow-tine to the antlers, which, in common with those of the roe-deer, belong to what is called the forked type.

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  • They are about the size of fallowdeer, and have simply forked antlers.

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  • The pair of beams are hung centrally by rods and hooks from knife-edges in the forked end of a strong beam, which is carried at its fulcrum by the top plate of the frame of the machine.

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  • Eventually each lateral groove forked, so that there were five grooves.

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  • The leaves, which were of simple form (except in Archaeocalamites, where they forked), were inserted in whorls at the nodes; they were either free from one another or cohered by their bases into a sheath.

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  • There it forked, one branch going down the Maeander valley to Magnesia and thence north to Ephesus, a distance of about 90 m., and the other branch crossing the mountains by an easy pass to Philadelphia and the Hermus valley, Sardis, Thyatira and at last Pergamum.

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  • Each division of the tricarpellary ovary of Jatropha Curcas has a bifurcate or forked style, and the ovary of Emblica officinalis has three styles, each of which is twice forked.

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  • The gods must be proud, thought I, with such forked flashes to rout a poor unarmed fisherman.

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  • She forked some hay to Princes and leaned the pitchfork against the wall near the door.

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  • Bruce, the leader of the Scottish expedition, finds that there is a ridge " extending in a curve from Madagascar to Bouvet Island, and from Bouvet Island to the Sandwich group, whence there is a forked connexion through the South Orkneys to Graham's Land, and through South Georgia to the Falkland Islands and the South American continent."

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  • Hunting Weapons.The forked lance of flint was at first wide with stTght hollow (73) from S.D.

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  • He forked a piece of chicken off the platter.

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