ladle

You cannot bail out the Titanic with a soup ladle.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

The championships are considered a major cultural event in the Netherlands, even featuring special postage stamps with the logo of a ladle and potato masher.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

The movie purports to dip into the deep well of Shakespearean magnificence but emerges only with a ladle full of greasy schmaltz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

When the rice kernels seem tender and you’ve added all of the cheese and butter, use a ladle to serve risotto in a large bowl or plate.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025

Holding my breath nervously, I pray she will take pity on me and scoop my ladle of soup from the bottom of the pot, where all the solid food rests.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Here in Chicago, every coffee shop worth its salt now ladles out some steaming permutation of oat mush with a swirl of tahini or jam, SQIRL-style.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025

Kristofferson never sounded more like Leonard Cohen than he did here, rhapsodizing in a parched croon about a woman’s redeeming devotion as producer Fred Foster ladles on just the right amount of easy-listening schmaltz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

Lava-like liquid oozes from the base of the furnace as soot-coated men in hooded reflective suits, thick gloves and protective visors steer the candescent flow with ladles the length of spears.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

The cover of Vishwesh Bhatt’s new cookbook is a still-life photograph: Jars of black-eyed peas stand near silver ladles tinged with patina, and next to them, collard leaves fan out and over.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

She ladles lemonade into a plastic bottle, spilling some in her haste.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Many remain convinced a tsunami could yet strike, he said, as government aid workers ladled rice porridge into bowls for the evacuees.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

President ladled his usual flattery on Mr. Xi as a “great” and “powerful” leader, and said the two are now fast friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Its pink-and-green neon parrot sign lit the way to some of the most satisfying chili cheese fries I’ve ever eaten: crinkle-cut potatoes, sheeny Velveeta-yellow cheese sauce, chili ladled from a mini-crockpot in the back.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025

A communal kitchen ladled out potato soup for their dinner.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

Mumtaz plucked cream-colored ceramic bowls and plates with gold trim out of the cupboards while the little girl ladled cholay, beef korma, and saffron-scented rice into serving platters.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

A few metres away, his mother Beatrice was busy ladling out and flipping crepes spread from brim to brim with a generous layer of chocolate-hazelnut spread.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The women, ladling out stew and potatoes with frozen hands, scoffed at the idea that the police could stop the crossings.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023

“They would say, ‘Ay, no, you live in Vietnam!’” recalls Ms. Inglés, ladling mango juice into a bag for a young boy at the juice stand she runs outside her home.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

In perhaps his most famous act in his prior job as Brooklyn borough president, he hosted a demonstration of a newfangled rat trap that involved ladling drowned rats out of a vat.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

Mom and Dad are down there, spoons clinking on their bowls, ladling out soup for their uninvited dinner guest, their fellow conspirator.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements