ladle
Example Sentences
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In the kitchen, I check out Tūtū’s wooden ladle, but it’s basically an oversized spoon and I made one of those already.
From Literature
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Using a soup ladle attached to an ice axe, Swanson reached out, straining to touch the ground as the helicopter lowered nearer and nearer the summit.
From Literature
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Brothy soups and hearty stews Stock up on sturdy deli containers and ladle them full of nourishing soups and stews.
From Salon
Mrs. Wigginbottom suddenly dropped her ladle into the stew pot with such a crash, it silenced the group.
From Literature
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The movie purports to dip into the deep well of Shakespearean magnificence but emerges only with a ladle full of greasy schmaltz.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.