Example sentences for: spoons

How can you use “spoons” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You’ll also find lots of older pieces — not quite antique but still exquisite — in collectibles shops around the town in the form of pretty spoons, ornate pill and snuff boxes, or letter openers.

  • A German doctor named Lorenz Hoffman had a typical Kunst- und Wunderkammer : he owned paintings by Durer and Cranach, a skeleton of a newborn, two dozen miniature spoons hidden within a cherry pit, an armband made of elks' hoofs, mummies and various rare musical instruments.

  • Since silver spoons sometimes lend a metallic taste to caviar, Mitchell sells spoons made of mother-of-pearl for as little as $25 a pair (or you can save your money and use plastic).

  • Babies bang wooden spoons on overturned saucepans; grannies rock so silently you can hear the creak of floorboards and hip bones.

  • The piece tantalizes with the news that during Camelot, Pierre Salinger hired a professional pickpocket to quietly recover spoons on their way out the door, and that in 1990 a Secret Service agent was convicted of stealing more than $7,000 in presidential china.


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