Examples of “tine” in a Sentence

noun A pointed prong, such as one of the points of a fork or a comb tooth.

• Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone. — Maya Angelou (1969)
• The tines of the fork were quite evidently of iron or steel, the girl did not know which, while the handle and the spoon were of the same material as the smaller vessels. — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed (1920)
• One of the fork's tines was bent out of shape.

noun A branch or point on a deer's antler.

• The stag's antlers had six tines on each side.