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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Here in Chicago, every coffee shop worth its salt now ladles out some steaming permutation of oat mush with a swirl of tahini or jam, SQIRL-style.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
Inside, workers dipped ladles into buckets filled with soup that they poured into Styrofoam containers stuffed with rice to distribute to Haitians who have lost homes to gang violence.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
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
An assortment of pots and pans hang from hooks on the wooden studs next to ladles and strainers and big boxes of breakfast cereal, which must come from Costco.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
