spoons

Example Sentences

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As we speak, he gamely spoons chicken noodle soup into his mouth with a plastic spoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Ivorian schoolchildren crowd around masks, finely carved turtles, and ceremonial spoons once admired by visitors of Zurich's Rietberg Museum.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

There are some evenings where you, literally, just don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026

Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

The ice cream cups came with little wooden spoons, and she unwrapped them both and handed the boy one.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman