spoon

Example Sentences

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What do you mean you hunted and gathered ingredients—this, in an age when eggs are practically a luxury item—and stood at the stove stirring, spooning and thinking of me?

From Salon

I’m a year-round evangelist for the chopped “spoon salad,” where everything in the bowl is scoopable and no bite requires wrestling.

From Salon

I would match the spoon to a pair of shoelaces.

From Los Angeles Times

Old wives’ tales of silver spoons turning black when they touch a poisonous mushroom, or that only bright-colored or foul-tasting mushrooms are unsafe are false, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

He also gives each table a little dish with some tiny crystals on it—almost like salt grains—and the tiniest little spoon I’ve ever seen.

From Literature