Example Sentences

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In the town of Staryi Saltiv, women were ladling out soup into containers for a line of townspeople as other volunteers ran a generator for people to charge their cellphones.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Standing near the church where supporters of my mom were ladling out dinner, we shot a low-tech political ad.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2020

Inside, the cooks were ladling out beef-and-barley stew, thick with carrots and onions, served in trenchers hollowed from loaves of yesterday’s bread.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Or, if the branch be too stout, he can plunge a spoon into the mass; and deposit where he will the living spoonfuls, as though he were ladling out corn.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

As a matter of fact, what I wanted to say wouldn't have taken five minutes, and I could have said it while you were ladling out the soup.

From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.