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

But here’s the thing: there are nights when you don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 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

"No silver spoons in my hood, just empty pockets," he mused.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Mamita and Mami and Tía Isa, not understanding that drumsticks are the only kind of drumsticks that will do on a drum, suggested pencils or the handles of wooden spoons used for making cake batter.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez