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ladle

[leyd-l] / ˈleɪd l /
NOUN
scoop
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The beef noodle soup, which accounts for about 80% of orders, contains noodles, beef, one ladle of original stock and one ladle of fresh broth to dilute the stock’s intense flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

You cannot bail out the Titanic with a soup ladle.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Having finished second last year, Vos said he was "very, very proud" to be taking home the silver ladle this time.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

Sometimes the difference between everyday and celebratory is just a ladle, a bowl and the good ice cubes.

From Salon Feb. 3, 2026

One of my favorite photos was of my mom and Abuela smiling as Abuela symbolically handed my mom a ladle when she took over as head chef.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Inside, workers dipped ladles into buckets filled with soup that they poured into Styrofoam containers stuffed with rice to distribute to Haitians who have lost homes to gang violence.

From Seattle Times Mar. 15, 2024

It’s womb-like and astral, and Lustwerk’s talk-raps, which he casually ladles throughout, are like reassuring commands.

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2022

The cover of Vishwesh Bhatt’s new cookbook is a still-life photograph: Jars of black-eyed peas stand near silver ladles tinged with patina, and next to them, collard leaves fan out and over.

From Washington Post Dec. 8, 2022

It has long tables, with red-and-white-checkered tablecloths, and its own lumberjack museum, with giant saws — and soup ladles befitting Paul Bunyan himself — hanging from the walls.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2022

The spoons they gave us were big old metal soup ladles, which I knew would never fit into my mouth.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Many remain convinced a tsunami could yet strike, he said, as government aid workers ladled rice porridge into bowls for the evacuees.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

President ladled his usual flattery on Mr. Xi as a “great” and “powerful” leader, and said the two are now fast friends.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Its pink-and-green neon parrot sign lit the way to some of the most satisfying chili cheese fries I’ve ever eaten: crinkle-cut potatoes, sheeny Velveeta-yellow cheese sauce, chili ladled from a mini-crockpot in the back.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2025

Then they ladled the liquid into small cups.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2025

Kreacher came bustling to the table with a large tureen in his hands, and ladled out soup into pristine bowls, whistling between his teeth as he did so.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

A few metres away, his mother Beatrice was busy ladling out and flipping crepes spread from brim to brim with a generous layer of chocolate-hazelnut spread.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

The women, ladling out stew and potatoes with frozen hands, scoffed at the idea that the police could stop the crossings.

From BBC Dec. 21, 2023

Then, and only then, does Smith fry the patty, obsessively ladling rendered beef fat over the meat until the surface caramelizes to wring out that Maillard reaction.

From Seattle Times Apr. 27, 2023

Once those finish baking and cooling, prepare the mousse and work fast, ladling the mousse into the pan, lining the outside with the ladyfingers, and then stacking the cake layers, alternating with the mousse.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2022

She was ladling stew into a large serving basin.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson




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