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
As we speak the spring runs dry, meaning Ms Mosiyoa is left to scoop out the remaining water from a litter-filled, stagnant pool.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 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
Shelby Walker bounces from hotel to hotel with her five children and four grandchildren while crews tear up railroad tracks and scoop out contaminated soil near their four-bedroom home.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023
Nel began a more strenuous digging and, rising to her knee, was careful to scoop out the dirt as she made her hole deeper.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
