spoons

Example Sentences

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Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

Ivorian schoolchildren crowd around masks, finely carved turtles, and ceremonial spoons once admired by visitors of Zurich's Rietberg Museum.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

There are some evenings where you, literally, just don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026

The tinkling sounds are the spoons hitting each other in the breeze.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt