spoons

Example Sentences

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Armed with spoons, they test the samples in a rapid-fire process of slurping and spitting into metal sinks they call “spittoons.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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

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

There are some evenings where you, literally, just don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026

The only sounds in here are the slow, repetitive clanks of our spoons.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day