spoons
Example Sentences
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In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Everything here is earned. At private schools the facilities are provided, but here there are no silver spoons, we have to put the work in."
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
As we speak, he gamely spoons chicken noodle soup into his mouth with a plastic spoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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
I opened a drawer full of rubber bands, old batteries, rusted spoons, and what I hoped was a dried-up raisin.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
