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
Denny Webster, who works at the site, helped the search by using an excavator to scoop out waste.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
Another method, recorded in 1735, was to scoop out the pulp, mix it with chopped apples and sugar, bake this in the hollowed pumpkin, then eat it spread on bread.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
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
Before Mr. Washburn is even finished, Mami is sobbing, great gouging sobs, as if she is trying to scoop out all the sadness inside herself so there will be room for other feelings.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
