How to Use forklift in a Sentence

forklift

noun
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  • On the ground, someone is using a grinder on a large forklift.
    — NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
  • The gator was euthanized and removed from the work site with the same forklift.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 27 May 2017
  • Nicholas has been a forklift operator, worked as a server.
    — Doyle Woody, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 June 2017
  • Use a forklift to transfer to a bun and top it with nearly 500 pounds of toppings.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2017
  • Workers at McLane drive forklifts and load hefty boxes into trucks.
    — Danielle Paquette, The Cannabist, 17 May 2017
  • The government department used a forklift to remove the shark from the boat for further study.
    — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • A sprawling complex snaked with 5 miles of conveyor belts hums as workers process boxes and ride forklifts.
    — Hannah Madans, Orange County Register, 21 May 2017
  • A 27-year-old man is dead after a forklift accident at a Menards store in Burnsville last week.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 9 May 2017
  • Watching a forklift play pedal steel guitar in an automotive country western band is its own kind of treat.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
  • Once the forklift then rolled into place on the street, the telescoping reach arm extended the statue to its assigned spot before public works staff slid the sculpture from its pallet and nudged it into place.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 22 May 2017
  • At first the inside appears similarly uninspired: deep and unfinished, littered with cardboard boxes, plumbing fittings, spools of wire, inscrutable items made of copper, a forklift.
    — Wayne Curtis, WIRED, 30 May 2017
  • First the forks on the forklift were too small, and new ones had to be found.
    — Y Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • For one thing, a forklift is needed just to move the beast.
    — Dan Nosowitz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • It’s rippled across the docks to the trains, the trucks, the warehouses, the forklift drivers.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The fish was weighed with a crane scale, by raising it with a forklift truck.
    — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Gomes-Pereira and his team enlisted the help of a forklift to weigh and measure the fish.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the bones were so heavy that researchers required a forklift to move them.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Witnesses told said the suspect broke in, stole the forklift and rammed through the gates.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 July 2023
  • Workers used a forklift to move the RV out of the way to keep traffic moving.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Stewart grew up in the Wylam area and worked as a forklift driver.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And within the last five years, her staff parked a forklift in the back of a garage door in a receiving area of the store.
    — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Cranes and forklifts were used to lift the sections into place.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • That means renting a flatbed truck for the day along with a forklift, Cohen said.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Some weighed dozens of kilograms and required a forklift to move.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 1 Feb. 2023
  • At the halfway mark, the group came upon a mangled forklift.
    — Victoria Kim, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
  • These snakes were so big that, once crated, a forklift had been needed to move them.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Workers use forklifts to carry the bales from the trucks to one of four lines for processing.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al.com, 19 June 2019
  • The forklift passes by again and Ms. Salmon moves to another part of the warehouse.
    — Ibrahim Onafeko, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Ohio’s Akron Art Museum, which owns the piece, has been forced to rely upon a forklift in order to install it.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Torres, a forklift operator, was working the night shift at the Freeport warehouse on July 24 when a microburst hit.
    — Jason Brow, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024

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