spoons

Example Sentences

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He said he could smell the mould from outside the house and "you could see the black spoors in the air" inside.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Mr. Frank’s photographs — of lone individuals, teenage couples, groups at funerals and odd spoors of cultural life — were cinematic, immediate, off-kilter and grainy, like early television transmissions of the period.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

They did find spoors, tracks and other evidence of lions in the four sites and ever-so-rarely laid eyes on an actual lion.

From Scientific American • Jan. 9, 2014

These men, by brilliant studies, have shown that a certain syndrome of abdominal pain, where syphilitic spoors and exopthalmic goiter do not intrude, shows the symptoms of atypical migraine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over this ran aluminum roaches and iron crickets, and in the hot still air butterflies of delicate red tissue wavered among the sharp aroma of animal spoors!

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury