He was careful to avoid harming her with His sharp tines.

They carried the Ashkaarian equivalent of pitchforks, and the long, sharp tines were a glittering threat that Troi wisely chose to heed.

He swallowed, trying to judge whether he could dodge aside quickly enough to avoid the thrust of those sharp tines, and whether he retained the strength to wrestle the implement away from her.

Although bone-handle forks were designed to be used for eating, my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother always used them in cooking, where their thin, sharp tines can be a great advantage.

The thin, sharp tines won't get stuck in the carrot or lamb, and they leave barely a mark.

We peered over the edge to see her passed out 20 feet below, within inches of the curving, sharp tines of the hay rake.

The sharp tines of the hook caught on the stone sill above.

She thought her life caught up on the sharp tines of grim fate.

The metal eating sticks and spoon, which sported two sharp tines like canines, were magnetically attached to the bowl.

These were equipped with finger and toe spikes, doing it the hard way, ascending laboriously hand-over-hand by jabbing the sharp tines into crumbly mortarwork.