spoon

Example Sentences

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Yet his creation continues to burrow into public consciousness, perhaps too deep to be dislodged by anything less than a scalpel—or a spoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

“I will go out there with my metal pan and my metal spoon and I will bang the drums in joy,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

Constitution and that if you try to stir some soup with a spoon made of the element gallium, the spoon will disappear into the bowl—all thanks to my troubles with sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Here, I like creamy, whole-fat; the kind that holds its shape on a spoon.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

There was yellow cake, cut into cubes and mixed with jam and eaten with a spoon; it was superbly good.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell