Example Sentences

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Servers, in masks and gloves, will spoon the requested dishes onto diners’ personal platters.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2021

The server will spoon some of this sizzling fat over the meat he has just plated, generally with some line like “Here are your vitamins.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2019

People in Mexico and Russia and Poland will spoon out her sugar for coffee, or to bake in their birthday cakes.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

I dream no dreams of a nurse-maid state That will spoon me out my food.

From Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems by Clark, Badger