spooning

Example Sentences

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I tore through half a bottle in a week—drizzling it over salads, spooning it onto seafood, and, of course, dunking torn-up hunks of crusty French bread.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

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

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

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

Belém, BrazilAt first it was just a peculiar food of the Brazilian Amazon, a tiny berry yielding a thick purple pulp that locals adored spooning down with fried fish and manioc flour.

From National Geographic • Dec. 14, 2023

“Let’s try a few bites of this,” she says, spooning some into my mouth.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen