How to Use prong in a Sentence

prong

noun
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  • Is that the two-pronged goal here? Nate: That is the two prongs.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • The prongs of the pick made a plink, plink, plink music.
    — Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Biden has a new six-prong strategy to deal with the virus.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
  • At that point, the man stopped kicking, but the deputies didn’t remove the Taser prongs from his shirt.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The tip of the prong can leave a water spot and glasses wedged over two tines can crack.
    — Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, 13 Nov. 2019
  • An unsung hero of the surgical mask is the metal prong tucked into the seam at the bridge of the nose.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The prongs are sharp enough to dig into meats and vegetables.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • By Monday, the two-week closure of Tuscaloosa bars was announced as one prong in the effort to curb the rapid spread.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2020
  • To use, slip the pointed prong underneath a bad stitch, then pull upward to cut the thread.
    — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The second prong, is getting girls involved at a young age.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2023
  • England's Mason Mount has scored in his last two games (prong 1).
    — SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The other prong was to get Notre Dame players off the field as soon as possible.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2020
  • That would have cast an even wider net because the B prong of the test rules out people who would pass the entire ABC test.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • And, of course, Go is just one prong of Amazon's push into selling us food.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Bonus points if the mask has a metal prong at the nose, similar to a surgical mask.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The role of food banks and pantries The emergency food system is the fourth prong, but the option people often think of first.
    — Jen Zettel-Vandenhouten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The internet lost its mind over Matthew Williams’s three-prong sandals at Givenchy.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This is the other prong of Gessen’s argument about the shift in audience.
    — Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2020
  • The other belt, which was free-falling on the waist—hanging on by a punch hole and a prong—had silver hardware.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Those barbules, in turn, have even smaller features—lumpy nodes and prongs spaced along their length.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Putin sees Russia’s space program as one prong of that effort.
    — Kenneth Chang and Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The second prong of the plaintiffs’ argument is that the whole law must stand or fall in its entirety.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • His spork’s prongs haven’t dipped or bent out of shape, and its body still seems sturdy—proof that aging will be kind to this utensil.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • After Plymell’s death, a Taser prong was found lodged near his right nipple.
    — Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Wrap the hair around a double-prong curling iron like the Nalu Waver to give the hair a more natural curl that has movement.
    — Kristin Corpuz, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2019
  • More interesting is the second prong of the Beijing-beats-the-world myth: the economy.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Access to affordable food is the third prong, Bartfeld said.
    — Jen Zettel-Vandenhouten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The other prong of the Biden agenda is focused on prevention — summer programs for youths and the like.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 June 2021
  • The three prongs of the disease are nasal polyps, asthma and allergic reactions to most pain medications, progressing to anaphylactic shock.
    — Joanne Fowler, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • While other prongs of the lawfare campaign against Donald Trump are flailing or encountering timing issues, Letitia James has delivered.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 21 Mar. 2024

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