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• The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.From the entry noncommittal
• Ford said the underlying enabler would be digital ticketing, claiming that passengers will want touch-free travel.2021 March 10, “Network News: Understanding passengers' needs is key to recovery”, in RAIL, number 926, page 15. From the entry touch-free
• Ford and Mazda have also developed internal combustion engined vehicles with hydrogen power.2015, Jack Erjavec, Rob Thompson, Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach, 6th edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 820. From the entry internal combustion engined
• Ford, a former captain in the Navy Reserves and a management consultant, and Ms.2011 October 1, Zusha Elinson, “A Hand Slap Resounds in Sausalito”, in The New York Times. From the entry councilman
• There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69. From the entry fording
• Ford has announced that it will serve as presenting sponsor for this month’s Rocket League Championship Series Winter Majors.2021 February 10, Sebastien Bell, “The New F-150 To Come With Rocket Boosters (Because It’s For Rocket League)”, in Carscoops, archived…. From the entry Rocket Leaguer
• Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123. From the entry neuroqueer
• There are pullouts along the main road (which crosses two creek fords) that are just the thing for picnics.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
• Ford still had his hand stuck out.1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry disengage
• The Saxons called it Brotfortun - the 'ford with planks' - possibly a reference to a footbridge alongside the ford.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publishers Ltd, page 88. From the entry Bretforton
• Ford, 33, said she is by nature a piler and stacker but has learned to follow what she described good-naturedly as “the Charlie Code.”2007 May 10, Penelope Green, “Order and Chaos in a Single Heartbeat”, in New York Times. From the entry piler
• Down into the river they went, allotheistic teens, shawls wrapped snugly around them, to ford the river called Tokeneke, rock by rock.2000, Rick Moody, Demonology: Stories, page 221. From the entry allotheistic
• People believe that a beast shoots "ghost bullets" when they ford a stream in Sihch'uan at any time except the winter months .1968, Wolfram Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, page 195. From the entry ghost bullet
• Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop.1947 September 1, “Happy Day”, in Time. From the entry over a barrel
• There had been none among them coolheaded enough to reason out which trail he had likely taken, and thus look for him by the ford.1921, Edison Marshall, “The Heart of Little Shikara”, in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921. From the entry coolheaded
• Ford—she’s a dear if there ever was one—went up and put her arms around his neck, so as to stop him by a kiss.1915 September, Robert Grant, chapter XXII, in The High Priestess, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 375. From the entry if there ever was one
• Having forded the river, they passed under this town up a little cross-valley, when they reached Deshi-ribgyal where the great lama was residing.1904, Graham Sandberg, The Exploration of Tibet, Its History and Particulars From 1623 to 1904, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 105. From the entry Great Lama
• Left behind to cover the fords and delay the British, North Carolina general William Lee Davidson and a few men were killed as the British poured across Cowan's Ford.1998, Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. From the entry catawba
• The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102. From the entry sea
• The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144. From the entry honeycomb
• Ford — she's a dear if there ever was one — went up and put her arms around his neck, so as to stop him by a kiss.1915, Robert Grant, The High Priestess, page 375. From the entry fiendy

Meaning of ford

1. noun A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
2. noun A stream; a current.
3. verb To cross a stream by walking through it.

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How do you use ford in a sentence?

Ford is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.”

What is a short sentence with ford?

“Ford still had his hand stuck out.”

What does ford mean?

Ford means a location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.