utensil
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Example Sentences
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Watching them is like being spoonfed by the streamer’s CEO, Ted Sarandos, who, by pioneering this content model, is waving a utensil in front of us like an airplane coming in for a landing.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2026
In fall 2024, many of us were ridding our kitchens of a very common utensil, thanks to a piece in the Atlantic that instructed us to, “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula.”
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026
Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the plastic to migrate into the food you’re about to eat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024
Further, some can only bite food at specific locations inside their mouth, which they indicate by pushing the utensil using their tongue, he said.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
All this led up to the day Desdemona dangled a utensil over my mother’s belly.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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