Example Sentences

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The Met will ladle out a healthy dose of Verdi to note the 200th anniversary of his birth next year.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2012

"That beast, Todd, has gone, and Merishall will ladle us out three hundred of Virgil for missing call-over," moaned Bourne.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick