spoons

Example Sentences

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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

But here’s the thing: there are nights when you don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 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

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

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

Then a big pot was brought out as we raced to retrieve our indispensable spoons and bowls.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson