scoop
Example Sentences
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We stab the ground, loosening the earth, scooping out mounds with our hands.
From Literature
In New York, excavators scooped piles of snow into steaming orange trailers known as "hot tubs," which send the meltwater down into the city's sewer system.
From Barron's
When DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, announced results that caused a selloff in everything connected to artificial intelligence, we recommended scooping up shares of Amphenol on the dip.
From Barron's
“That’s part of the fun,” Van Hulsen says as she brings over a sterling silver ice cream scoop engraved with “There’s nothing wrong with me that ice cream can’t fix” in barely perceptible cursive.
From Los Angeles Times
A piece of Fern’s called out societal expectations that a woman “unobtrusively gather up her thimble and, retiring into some out-of-the-way place, gradually scoop out her coffin with it.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
