Explore Spooned through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Spooned in a sentence
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Spooned meaning
simple past and past participle of spoon
Using Spooned
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of spoon
- In the example corpus, spooned often appears in combinations such as: spooned over, spooned one, then spooned.
Context around Spooned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spooned
- In this selection, "spooned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, groped, juice, mash, onto and alongside stand out and add context to how "spooned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alcohol groped spooned and propositioned and bean mash spooned onto one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spooned" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spooned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In the opening innings, he spooned one back to Wasim Akram. (11 words)
Brisket is great with mashed potatoes, with the juice spooned over the top. (13 words)
Chestnuts in syrup also could be spooned out a glass jar as a topping. (14 words)
After losing the toss, Sri Lanka made a steady start with an opening partnership of 28 before Nadine de Klerk provided the breakthrough for South Africa with the wicket of Harshitha Samarawickrama, who spooned one up to Tazmin Brits at short mid-wicket. (43 words)
Once it was out of the oven, I sprinkled fresh mint over the top, drizzled on a little olive oil, then spooned some of the sauce and the eggs into two shallow bowls. (33 words)
Slower and loopy delivery wide of off form Soumya Sarkar, Malik was early into the drive and spooned it in the air, dropped in no man's land, wide of cover. (31 words)
Example sentences (13)
After losing the toss, Sri Lanka made a steady start with an opening partnership of 28 before Nadine de Klerk provided the breakthrough for South Africa with the wicket of Harshitha Samarawickrama, who spooned one up to Tazmin Brits at short mid-wicket.
After Spieth had spooned his tee drive out of bands, the onus was on Thomas to stay in contention with his opponents.
Chestnuts in syrup also could be spooned out a glass jar as a topping.
In the opening innings, he spooned one back to Wasim Akram.
O’Shea also sent graphic videos of himself, as well as plied the boys with alcohol, groped, spooned and propositioned them.
Brisket is great with mashed potatoes, with the juice spooned over the top.
In the accompanying recipe, each tender, chargrilled zucchini ribbon gets a dollop of lemon and garlic-seasoned white bean mash spooned onto one end.
In the “Food Atheist” vegan lobster roll episode, Lynch makes a seaweed butter, which is spooned into the hot dog rolls first.
It could go toward a giant couscous cake, or, instead, spooned alongside yesterday’s leftover turkey meatballs or tomorrow’s pan-fried tofu.
Rúben Dias then spooned over a De Bruyne corner as City entered the closing stages still searching for a third.
Slower and loopy delivery wide of off form Soumya Sarkar, Malik was early into the drive and spooned it in the air, dropped in no man's land, wide of cover.
Sterling should have levelled but spooned over before falling under pressure from Carter-Vickers, with the referee Andre Marriner pointing to the spot.
Once it was out of the oven, I sprinkled fresh mint over the top, drizzled on a little olive oil, then spooned some of the sauce and the eggs into two shallow bowls.
Common combinations with spooned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: