scoop out
Example Sentences
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A piece of Fern’s called out societal expectations that a woman “unobtrusively gather up her thimble and, retiring into some out-of-the-way place, gradually scoop out her coffin with it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
"Apparently they're used to scoop out your earwax, as if your fingernail won't do," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025
Another method, recorded in 1735, was to scoop out the pulp, mix it with chopped apples and sugar, bake this in the hollowed pumpkin, then eat it spread on bread.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
Seeing that excavator take that first scoop out of the dam, she said, “it feels like I can take a deep breath now.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
They passed around the pail of stew, using pieces of bread to scoop out the meat and to soak up the chili.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
