Examples of tine in a Sentence
Noun
One of the fork's tines was bent.
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Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
Plug aerators remove uniform pieces of soil with hollow tines.
—Kate Puhala, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2025
The antlers were huge, and the tines were almost white.
—Jeffrey A. Brunk, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2025
This type of optical diffraction makes small points of light take on the shape of the aperture and render as 14-point starbursts, but their tines lack definition, streaking out into multiple lines.
—PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
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Noun
As a result, the tine on the opposite side that roughly correlates is thus an unmatched non-symmetry point and is therefore an abnormal point.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
Plug aerators remove uniform pieces of soil with hollow tines.
—Kate Puhala, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2025
The antlers were huge, and the tines were almost white.
—Jeffrey A. Brunk, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2025
This type of optical diffraction makes small points of light take on the shape of the aperture and render as 14-point starbursts, but their tines lack definition, streaking out into multiple lines.
—PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Tine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tine. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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