(n.) A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
(v. t.) To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
Example Sentences:
(1) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
(2) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
(3) He says : Syro is the “most accessible” of the several albums he’s been working on, according to a forthcoming interview with James on Pitchfork.
(4) But Reznor told Pitchfork that experiments with Belew formed the catalyst for bringing the project back from hiatus , pushing him from "a discussion on performing … to some beard-scratching … to the decision to rethink the idea of what Nine Inch Nails could be".
(5) Speaking from his $1m property, which was originally built in 1934 for the king of Yugoslavia's treasurer, Benmosche defended the company's employees: "A lot of them feel hurt, embarrassed, a lot of people have lived in fear because of what I call lynch mobs with pitchforks."
(6) Independent musician Krukowski (of Galaxie 500 and Damon and Naomi) has already made one influential contribution to the streaming debate with his Making Cents op-ed for Pitchfork last year, breaking down his royalty payments.
(7) And yet, since the spring of 2010, WU LYF have found themselves featured by outlets including the Guardian , Pitchfork, BBC Radio 1, the New York Observer and Vogue Italia.
(8) Those two weeks should not be called paternity leave – they should be called pitchfork duty.
(9) After all, they might get restless – and that’s a lot of possible pitchforks.
(10) Judge Carl Anthony Walker declared on Tuesday that Keef had shown a "wilful disregard of the court" when he took a Pitchfork reporter to a New York gun range.
(11) No one really knows, but we can be clear that those driving the minister forward with pitchforks have a visceral hatred of the appearance of wind turbines.
(12) Pitchfork reports that the clip included archival footage of MIA and Diplo, plus interviews with artists and label executives such as Kanye West , Spike Jonze and XL's Richard Russell.
(13) She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.
(14) Other radical parties are expected to make it past the 5% threshold, including one led by the controversial Oleh Lyashko, who has taken part in the detention and questioning of separatists in the east, often using dubious methods, and whose party symbol is a pitchfork.
(15) Free Music Damon Krukowski, Pitchfork: "One way we could start is to collectively acknowledge that nobody can really claim digital streams as exclusive property.
(16) Mitt Romney's real success in the first presidential debate was to not emerge from the wings wearing horns and carrying a pitchfork, demanding that all the women in the audience submit immediately to transvaginal ultrasounds and relieving them of 23 cents for every dollar they happened to have on them.
(17) Initially championed by influential American music websites such as Pitchfork, it became one of the most critically lauded albums of the year, selling more than half a million copies globally.
(18) The Chicago Sun-Times reported that prosecutors cited the Pitchfork video as the main reason for his arrest.
(19) On Monday, at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal , someone tweeted me – and I’m not going to name them, as I have no interest in bringing the Twitter pitchfork mobs down on anyone’s head – “Can you do something about the bar prices here being so antisemitic?” I read this one out, even though I knew it wasn’t funny.
(20) Pitchfork took the video down in September after the murder of another Chicago rapper, Lil JoJo, saying the clip was "insensitive and irresponsible" given Chicago's ongoing gun violence.