ladle

You cannot bail out the Titanic with a soup ladle.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

When the sauna is hot, I ladle water and splash the stones.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

At the annual championships in Groningen, amateur and professional chefs from the Netherlands and beyond compete for the top prize in both categories -- a coveted silver ladle.

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

I take a ladle full, then spit it out.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

It’s womb-like and astral, and Lustwerk’s talk-raps, which he casually ladles throughout, are like reassuring commands.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

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

It has long tables, with red-and-white-checkered tablecloths, and its own lumberjack museum, with giant saws — and soup ladles befitting Paul Bunyan himself — hanging from the walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

She frowns as she ladles cassoulet into my bowl.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

Then they ladled the liquid into small cups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

Dallas made a deep well in his mashed potatoes and ladled in the smooth caramel-colored gravy.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

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

Before serving, cover and turn off the heat and allow to rest a bit before reheating to desired temperature before ladling into bowls.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

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

“We wouldn’t have sold the woods if we hadn’t had to,” she said, ladling out thick tomatoey soup.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix