Example Sentences

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Working with a group of assistants wielding massive wooden spatulas, Baci's crowning dish was later distributed for everyone to enjoy.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

As epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz points out, “most people don’t leave their spatulas in the fryer and walk away for a quarter of an hour.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

There’s no good reason for black plastic spatulas to have this stuff in them.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

For several days, Mr. Wang wandered around the factory’s showroom, assessing what among the rows of plastic bowls and spatulas he could pitch well.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

The next day, they went to a hardware store and bought putty knives and steel spatulas, and the decon team went to work chipping the walls and floor.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston