ladle

Example Sentences

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The championships are considered a major cultural event in the Netherlands, even featuring special postage stamps with the logo of a ladle and potato masher.

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

The movie purports to dip into the deep well of Shakespearean magnificence but emerges only with a ladle full of greasy schmaltz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Desperate, I grabbed a plastic ladle from the kitchen to change the mojo.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

Back at the barracks we formed yet another line—would there never be an end to columns and waits?—to receive our ladle of turnip soup in the center room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom