Explore Pitchfork through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like fork or lift. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pitchfork meaning
- An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
- A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
- Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
Using Pitchfork
- The main meaning on this page is: An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow). | A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader. | Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
- Useful related words include: hand tool, fork, lift.
- In the example corpus, pitchfork often appears in combinations such as: with pitchfork, pitchfork and, colin pitchfork.
Context around Pitchfork
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pitchfork
- In this selection, "pitchfork" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, recall, outlets, broken, music, union and ranch stand out and add context to how "pitchfork" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 0 on pitchfork s scale and a broken pitchfork placed next. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pitchfork" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pitchfork
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was named Best New Reissue by Pitchfork. (8 words)
The Parole Board said Pitchfork could be released subject to several conditions. (12 words)
You made your Pitchfork Festival debut on Friday — how did it go? (12 words)
An Oamaru man who instructed his girlfriend to dig her own grave with a pitchfork is determined to get his life back after "falling down the rabbit hole of methamphetamine". (30 words)
Pitchfork recently crowned headliner Jake Muir's latest LP one of the 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023, citing its hypnotic mix of synthesizer, field recordings and samples. (30 words)
In early January, police discovered a ewe in Cadnam which had been stabbed to death - with a cross made of hay and a broken pitchfork placed next to it. (29 words)
You made your Pitchfork Festival debut on Friday — how did it go? (12 words)
You don’t need bottoms on green benches to shift politics, when every populist vote is a proxy-pitchfork in the new revolution? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
The controversial organizational shakeup meant significant layoffs at Pitchfork, whose employees are represented by the Pitchfork Union, also a unit of the NewsGuild.
A concertgoer dances to the music of Mitski at Pitchfork Music Festival on July 16, 2022.
An Oamaru man who instructed his girlfriend to dig her own grave with a pitchfork is determined to get his life back after "falling down the rabbit hole of methamphetamine".
His vivid images made Pitchfork Ranch famous across America, not just in Wyoming where he became a cultural historical figure.
It said its panel ‘determined that it was no longer necessary for the protection of the public for Mr Pitchfork to remain confined and thereby directed his release’.
It was named Best New Reissue by Pitchfork.
The Parole Board said Pitchfork could be released subject to several conditions.
He was in possession of what is believed to be a pitchfork and a bottle.
In June last year, the Parole Board found the decision to recall Pitchfork to prison was flawed and said his detention was no longer necessary for public safety.
Pitchfork recently crowned headliner Jake Muir's latest LP one of the 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023, citing its hypnotic mix of synthesizer, field recordings and samples.
Popular digital outlets Pitchfork, Jezebel and BuzzFeed News have disappeared or been folded into other publications.
You made your Pitchfork Festival debut on Friday — how did it go?
For those of you thinking this animated incarnation of Lucifer looks like every other pitchfork-toting horned demon, you'd be what we call wrong.
In early January, police discovered a ewe in Cadnam which had been stabbed to death - with a cross made of hay and a broken pitchfork placed next to it.
It is no surprise then that popular summer music festivals and events like Do Division and Pitchfork Music Festival were cancelled for 2020.
Pitchfork confirmed in April that was granted an early release from prison over coronavirus concerns.
You don’t need bottoms on green benches to shift politics, when every populist vote is a proxy-pitchfork in the new revolution?
Bottom right: Kevin Parker of Tame Impala performs during day one of Pitchfork at Union Park on July 20 in Chicago.
Every step is a creak and a thump before he finally stabs Tommy with a pitchfork.
The famously scathing take-down gave the album a score of 0.0 on Pitchfork’s scale of 8.0.
Common combinations with pitchfork
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- with pitchfork 4×
- pitchfork and 4×
- colin pitchfork 4×
- on pitchfork 3×
- pitchfork was 3×
- at pitchfork 2×
- pitchfork music 2×
- pitchfork is 2×
- pitchfork to 2×
- pitchfork in 2×