silver spoon
Example Sentences
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"Some red squirrels have the luck of being born into gentler early environments, akin to being born with a silver spoon," Petrullo said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024
Shay said in the Oprah interview that her mother once told her, “You were born in a crystal ball with a silver spoon.’
From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023
The gilded silver spoon escaped the Parliamentary melting pot because a man who’d once worked for the king bought it for 16 shillings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023
A warm, chatty only child, she wasn't born with a silver spoon — she'd worked since she was three, she proudly proclaimed.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2022
She places a gleaming silver spoon and fork on the dirt-encrusted table and leans back to survey it.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
