teaspoon
a teaspoonful.
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How to use teaspoon in a sentence
A teaspoon of neutron-star material might be enough to give us gravity, she says.
Staying grounded in space requires artificial gravity | Bethany Brookshire | May 4, 2021 | Science News For StudentsSometimes, he applies his irony with a shovel where a teaspoon would work.
Then, using a teaspoon or your fingers, add a bit of stuffing to each leaf, starting on the outside and working your way in.
A teaspoon of healthy soil can contain between 100 million and 1 billion of these microbes.
Soil (and its inhabitants) by the numbers | Catherine Arnold | February 25, 2021 | Science News For StudentsForest soils can hold several hundred of them in a teaspoon.
Soil (and its inhabitants) by the numbers | Catherine Arnold | February 25, 2021 | Science News For Students
Place one sheet of phyllo on the board, brush it with butter, and sprinkle it with ¾ teaspoon of bread crumbs.
I popped a teaspoon of coconut oil (purchased at Trader Joe's) into my mouth and took very deep breaths through my nose.
We Were Gwyneth’s GOOP Guinea Pigs | Erin Cunningham, Olivia Nuzzi | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA tablespoon of ketchup, for example, contains about a teaspoon of sugar, or about 16 calories of added sugar.
How to Watch Out for Hidden Sugar and Replace With Leaner Substitutes | Diana Le Dean | February 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAlso great for recipes that call for a teaspoon of fresh-ground black pepper, which is otherwise incredibly tedious.
I have the one with common measure equivalents--how many milligrams in a teaspoon, how many teaspoons in a cup.
Mix one pint of bran, one-half pint of flour, and one level teaspoon of baking soda.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. SadlerSchmidt smiled again as he set his teaspoon across his cup, the conventional sign that he wished no more tea.
The Red City | S. Weir MitchellSuch a spoon, as shown in Fig. 3, is about the length of a teaspoon, but has a round bowl.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThe spoon to be served with soup also depends on the kind of soup, but a larger spoon than a teaspoon is always necessary.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThen she added the fourth of a pound of brown sugar and the fourth of a teaspoon of mixed ground spices.
A Little Preserving Book for a Little Girl | Amy Waterman
British Dictionary definitions for teaspoon
/ (ˈtiːˌspuːn) /
a small spoon used for stirring tea, eating certain desserts, etc
Also called: teaspoonful (ˈtiːˌspuːnfʊl) the amount contained in such a spoon
a unit of capacity used in cooking, medicine, etc, equal to about one fluid dram
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