spoon

Maybe the dish would have run away with the spoon as a 20-something year old, but I’ve been around the block enough times to know that it’s all a balance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A colander or a draining spoon will give you lots of mini-eclipses, with the images projected on to the ground while you stand with your back to the Sun.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Those cramped containers weren’t conducive to a spoon, says Hollid-Ausset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

I’d change into play clothes, take my bowl and begin the solemn work of crushing an obscene number of crackers into the carrot-flecked broth until the spoon could nearly stand upright.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Dyedka, having finished his stew, slammed his spoon on the table.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Dip the freezer dates in the melted chocolate using two spoons.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Everything here is earned. At private schools the facilities are provided, but here there are no silver spoons, we have to put the work in."

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

As we speak, he gamely spoons chicken noodle soup into his mouth with a plastic spoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Grandma watched shows about antique collectors, so he knew the importance of properly storing things like bronze spoons from the 1700s.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

They stood and screamed as one as Auger-Aliassime spooned a backhand long to confirm Djokovic's victory.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The drippings, on that first night, don’t go to waste: they’re coaxed into something worthy of the occasion, slicked over potatoes or spooned onto rice, greener and more herb-laced than you might expect.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

It ended up spooned over chicken, rice and greens, the whole thing rich without ever touching cream.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

Whisked egg yolks and sugar get spooned on top, like a frothy, golden ambrosia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

“Hmm,” she said finally in a squeaky little tone and spooned two heaping measures of sugar into her cup.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

New England-style lobster rolls weren’t always so plentiful in Los Angeles, and Connie & Ted’s offered some of the best and most consistent, spooning lobster shipped fresh from Gloucester, Mass., onto fluffy, griddled rolls.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

Don’t start spooning up coleslaw because you think it’ll stop you from getting cancer.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

Now that the show's wedding episodes have aired, one can't help wondering if the show’s producers were spooning out a bit of foreshadowing.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024

It felt perfectly complete to reach back into the fridge, take out the strained yogurt and balance out the dish by spooning some on top.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

“Yeah,” said Hunter, and he moved to the stove like a predator and started spooning himself out dinner.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson