adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
forked lightning (= lightning that appears as lines connected to each other )
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Forked lightning spread across the sky.
forked lightning
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tail
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Larger and rather more uniformly dark than Little Swift, and with a markedly narrower white rump and distinctly forked tail .
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Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail .
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Complete white collar, paler rump and less forked tail are best distinctions from winter Whiskered Tern.
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In these superb light conditions its deeply forked tail glowed a rich chestnut.
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The only large predator of the region with a deeply forked tail , except for the Black Kite.
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He is growing horns and a forked tail here!
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Narrow, scythe-like wings, short usually forked tail adapted to very fast flight.
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Males are slimmer than females, with a more deeply forked tail fin.
tongue
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General Howard talks with a forked tongue !
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The forked tongue is linked to olfactory organs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
speak with forked tongue
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The governor has been known to speak with forked tongue .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail.
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In these superb light conditions its deeply forked tail glowed a rich chestnut.
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The forked road which every star, perhaps every person, faces at least once in a lifetime lay dead ahead.
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The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.