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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forkful
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After he had eaten only a few forkfuls, he felt calmer and stronger.
▪ He'd pushed forkfuls of food into his mouth, chewing it mechanically, drinking water to make swallowing easier.
▪ He put more potatoes into his mouth, a forkful.
▪ We grin at each other through forkfuls of spaghetti.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forkful

1640s; see fork (n.) + -ful.

Wiktionary
forkful

n. The amount that a fork will hold.

Usage examples of "forkful".

Alice pointed her forkful of fried egg at the wall next to the kitchen window, where painted shelves held the things Helen had started and stopped collecting over the years saltcellars, vintage salt and pepper shakers, cobalt blue glassware.

Ralph was only two feet from a fat woman who had frozen in shock with a forkful of creamcake halfway to her mouth.

He was poised with a forkful of blueberry pie when Remo entered the somewhat overfurnished dining room.

There's the sound of the little meaningful chuckle in the locked dark room, the sight of half a caterpillar in your forkful of salad, the curious smell from the lodger's bedroom, the taste of slug in the cauliflower cheese.

Magpie Maggie Hag gave Edge a plate of beans and corn bread, and he talked between forkfuls.

She spent most of the walk on Long-Drink's shoulders, he being the tallest of us, and from time to time she would demand that we pass her up a mango ice cream or a bite of Cuban sandwich or a sip of peach juice or a forkful of Key lime pie or a bite of pizza.

Sam explained in a jolly, steamrolling manner, between forkfuls of stew.

He tried not to make a face at the first taste and then manfully swallowed it and dug in for a second forkful.

I can see it now: the dean and his spaniels are shoveling forkfuls of red meat while poor Malison just sits there, tuning out their petty conversation and gagging at the sight of the carnage on his plate.

Aguinaldo shoveled another forkful of breakfast into his mouth and masticated while looking a challenge at Sturgeon.

Carr pursued as he speared a forkful of tender sole meunière, “means flight.

Since he'd polished off his cake, Nell nudged hers toward him and wasn't the least bit surprised when he took a forkful.

He reached over, scooped up a forkful of eggs from her plate and held them to her lips.

He would dip his head almost to the plate, shovel in a heaping forkful, chew heavily with rolling bulge of muscle at the jaw corners, and then slosh it down with a gulp of wine, the throat bulging and shifting with the bulky swallow.