Example Sentences

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“There used to be a lot more middle-class jobs,” said Clyde bleakly, another concrete ladler.

From Economist • Nov. 3, 2016

People who were once children at the head of a soup line remember that they learned to beg the ladler for a deep stir so they would not get only flavored water.

From Time Magazine Archive

Max had married Valerie back a million years ago, it seemed like, at Miracle School, where she worked as a potion ladler.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Why another old man like me—Andrey Pupir—the mistress ordered to be put into the paper factory, as a ladler.

From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Garnett, Constance

The soup ladler was ladling rapidly, rolling his eyes sideways.

From The Yillian Way by Laumer, Keith