scoop out
Example Sentences
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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 The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
"Apparently they're used to scoop out your earwax, as if your fingernail won't do," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025
You’d stick your hands in and then scoop out dyes and weigh them like that because they are so carcinogenic.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
Shelby Walker bounces from hotel to hotel with her five children and four grandchildren while crews tear up railroad tracks and scoop out contaminated soil near their four-bedroom home.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023
“Watch out for Cora. She’s one of his favorites,” she says, eyes hooded as she watches the big girl reach into a boy’s bowl and scoop out a mouthful of porridge.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
