spoons
Example Sentences
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In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Dip the freezer dates in the melted chocolate using two spoons.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
"Everything here is earned. At private schools the facilities are provided, but here there are no silver spoons, we have to put the work in."
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Stuart took the spoons, but he was disgusted with the looks of them.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
