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Example sentences for "spoon"

Lexicographically close words:
spook; spooks; spooky; spool; spools; spoonbills; spooney; spoonful; spoonfull; spoonfulls
  1. No fork or spoon graced the festive board.

  2. Tom, as the spider, rushes out from under the table and sits down beside her, at which Polly drops the bowl and spoon in fright.

  3. Taking milk from the giant's spoon was like drinking out of a soup plate; but the child was very hungry.

  4. Boil without stirring till the syrup taken upon the spoon or skewer will "thread.

  5. Set in warm place over night, and in the morning with spoon and knife fill your tins part full, let rise to nearly top of pan, then bake an hour for medium size loaves.

  6. Mash with a wooden spoon or pestle, then cover and cook until the currants have reached the boiling point and are soft.

  7. Break the whole very fine with spoon or fork.

  8. Work these ingredients together, with a wooden spoon turn on to a board and form into round cakes.

  9. Mix very thoroughly, then drop the dough with a spoon on to a buttered baking pan in pieces about four inches long and one and one-half inches wide and some distance apart.

  10. Mix with the crumbs of two French rolls two ounces of blanched sweet almonds and put in a saucepan with a pint of cream and a little stock, boil ten minutes, then pass through a silk sieve, using a wooden spoon in the process.

  11. Return to the double boiler and cook until the spoon will coat with the custard.

  12. There young Patullo stands, and he, methinks, Can drive the longest ball upon the Links; And well he plays the spoon and iron, but He fails a little when he comes to putt.

  13. His spoon next Saddell takes, and plays a trump-- Mine should have been as good but for a bump That turn'd it off.

  14. It is good eating, and has fat of an orange tinge, like that of the zebra; I keep the bill to make a spoon of it.

  15. He replied that he did not know, but he had a friend in London who knew all these sort of things, so the Turkish ambassador in London brought the spoon to Professor Owen.

  16. For instance, this is the spasm ejaculated by Mr. Edgar Lee Masters, of Spoon River: Ed Grimes always did hate me Because I wrote better poetry than he did.

  17. And it is a long Pullman ride from Spoon River to the bee-droned gardens where De la Mare's old women sit and sew.

  18. If I could but bring that spoon within its illumination!

  19. This self-examination was not encouraging; the case was decidedly queer; and as I sat thus pondering in the dark, with the spoon in my hand, I am quite sure that no malefactor in a dungeon could have envied my reflections.

  20. Wash your butter in cold water to extract all the salt; work it well with a broad wooden spoon in order to get out all the water.

  21. Take ripe raspberries, put them in a pan, and mash them with a large wooden spoon or masher.

  22. One pint of milk, Three eggs, One pound of flour, One dessert spoonful of dissolved salaeratus, A tea spoonful of butter, A salt spoon of salt.

  23. Stem the strawberries, put them in a pan, and with a wooden spoon or potato masher rub them fine.

  24. Mix the salt, sugar, and mustard together, and then pour on some boiling water gradually, stir it with a horn spoon or knife till it is quite smooth.

  25. With a silver spoon lay the custard over the cake.

  26. Or, take a little out in a spoon and expose it to the cool air for a few minutes.

  27. Then take it up, pick out all the bones, and with a wooden spoon mash it up well, and return it to the water it was boiled in.

  28. With a spoon dip out a portion of the salsify about as large as an oyster, dip it in the egg, then in the cracker, and fry it in hot lard.

  29. In that fire I was destroyed as a souvenir spoon and became a lump of lead once more, lying in the ruins for nearly a thousand years, when I was sold along with a lot of iron and other things to a junk dealer.

  30. The spoon has been speculated by some one of our royal brethren at this board.

  31. He evidently had never seen a spoon with a tongue.

  32. I saw the spoon myself at the side of yon tureen when it was brought hither.

  33. When the King of Mangapore gave a state banquet to other kings in the neighborhood I was the spoon that was used to ladle out the royal broth.

  34. Best thing goin' for folks with icicles," remarked the captain, waving the iron spoon he had used to stir the contents of the saucepan.

  35. Keturah, who was carefully dealing out the prunes, exactly four to each saucer, stopped short, spoon in air, and gazed at Miss Dawes.

  36. In snapping at the spoon he threw forward his head and neck.

  37. When I put the spoon to his mouth he snapped at it and got it fast between his teeth, and seemed to bite it very hard.

  38. When I put the spoon to his mouth, he snapped at it and got it fast between his teeth, and seemed to bite it very hard.

  39. He then plunged his spoon into the middle of the broth, and filled it up with bread until the spoon could stand upright in it.

  40. The dressing is simplicity itself: Within the bowl of a table-spoon are placed, in succession, a spot of made mustard, and a sprinkling of black pepper and salt.

  41. Pound them well, and scrape the result with a silver spoon into a large bowl.

  42. Then the spoon is refilled--either twice or thrice, ad lib.

  43. Still, it was Christmas Eve, and besides it was as well not to offend him, so the farmer invited him in, and gave him a seat at the table and a wooden spoon like the rest.

  44. But the silver spoon and ball in the Breton ballad would appear to have been used for Marguerite to bite on in her anguish, just as sailors chewed bullets while being flogged.

  45. In the Breton ballad it is a silver spoon or a silver ball.

  46. The girl put the milk on a table by her, then stood, polishing a spoon on her apron.

  47. He waved his spoon airily, looking across at me as though I were a little child whom he would keep or dismiss as he pleased.

  48. Herr Erchardt, waving his spoon at the landlord, who shrugged his shoulders.

  49. The servant girl whipped a spoon out of a pan, and spilt two drops of grease on the stove.

  50. When needed, it may be carefully lifted with a spoon and used the same as a fresh yolk.

  51. Rub the spoon with garlic, mix thoroughly, stir into it the yolk of an egg that has been beaten light with two tablespoonfuls of cream; add a few drops of lemon juice or tarragon vinegar and serve.

  52. Then rub it with the back of a wooden spoon against the side of a bowl until perfectly smooth.

  53. There's nocht in him but what the spoon pits intil him.

  54. At the back of the milkhouse Kit set down the pot, and with a horn spoon which he took from his pocket he shared the scraping of the pot equally into three parts, dividing it mathematically by lines drawn up from the bottom.

  55. The young man ate the thick soup with a horn spoon from Meysie's pocket.

  56. A short time later Lorelei turned from the kitchenette to find Adoree Demorest poised, a salad-bowl in one hand, a wooden spoon gripped in the other, on her face a rapt expression of beatitude.

  57. At his entrance she uttered a frightened cry and a silver spoon slipped from her nerveless fingers.

  58. On a sort of table formed from the shoulder-blade of some animal and supported by four thigh bones, lay some crumbs of ship's biscuit, a pewter goblet, and a wooden spoon of Swedish workmanship.

  59. After uttering this aphorism the brave man took a spoon to help the smoking fish and potatoes, when a knock at the door made him pause.

  60. SOUP should be taken from the side of the spoon without noise and without the plate being tipped.

  61. The spoon should never be in the cup while drinking, but should be left in the saucer.

  62. If a fork or a spoon is dropped it should not be picked up by the guest, but another used, or ask the waiter to provide one.

  63. We rose, spoon in hand and breadhunk stuck on spoon, and made our way to the lady.

  64. In a moment I had straddled the bench and was occupying the gap, spoon and cup in hand, and ready for anything.

  65. And that red and white spoon cost another dollar.

  66. The red and white spoon shot to right and left.

  67. You put this red and white spoon with its four-pointed hook on the line.

  68. Her reel sang, the spoon gave off a silvery gleam as, cutting a narrow arc through the air, it sank from sight.

  69. You drag that red and white spoon after the boat.

  70. Scarcely knowing what she did, in her excitement Florence sprang to her feet, seized the steel casting rod and, racing to the bank, sent the red and white spoon darting toward the swimming wolf.

  71. The three-pronged hook of her trolling spoon was securely entangled in that bushy mat of hair.

  72. Florence lifted the red and white spoon from the water to send it rattling to the bottom of the boat.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    address; bail; bucket; copulate; cup; dally; decant; dip; dish; fork; kiss; ladle; neck; pet; pour; scoop; shovel; spade; spoon; toy; trifle; wanton