ladle
noun
a long-handled utensil with a cup-shaped bowl for dipping or conveying liquids.
ladles
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pluralof ladle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof ladle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
ladlenouna long-handled utensil with a cup-shaped bowl for dipping or conveying liquids.
Example Sentences
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It’s womb-like and astral, and Lustwerk’s talk-raps, which he casually ladles throughout, are like reassuring commands.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
It has long tables, with red-and-white-checkered tablecloths, and its own lumberjack museum, with giant saws — and soup ladles befitting Paul Bunyan himself — hanging from the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
After softening the noodles in boiling water, you finish cooking them in a saute pan with the sauce, adding ladles of the pasta water until they are done.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
By April, food ran short — so short that meals were cut to ladles of thin soup once a day, she said.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2022
“Now I can bend and shape pieces of iron I find around the ruins of the Gribley house and barn. Eventually I’ll forge them into shovels, ladles, and even nails.”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
