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
Denny Webster, who works at the site, helped the search by using an excavator to scoop out waste.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
You’d stick your hands in and then scoop out dyes and weigh them like that because they are so carcinogenic.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
Cut the pears in half lengthwise, and scoop out the seeds with a spoon.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023
He showed the boy how to scoop out the soft, pulpy insides.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
