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Example sentences for "ladle"

Lexicographically close words:
ladicte; ladie; ladies; lading; ladite; ladled; ladleful; ladles; ladling; lado
  1. And when Mrs. LADLE went to ANN'S room next day, for a good square scold, she found her out.

  2. Now Mrs. LADLE was a mother-in-law, and consequently a pretty old fowl in ferreting out things of this sort.

  3. But when he took ANN to the Agricultural Fair, and bought her a tin-type album and a box of initial note-paper, Mrs. LADLE was simply raving.

  4. Mrs. LADLE told her first to shut the door.

  5. And Mrs. LADLE will tell you that, as a washer, she is superb.

  6. Abe solemnly skimmed a ladle full of melted wax from the water, and poured it into a bamboo mould.

  7. Melt in an iron ladle or a crucible, equal parts of tin and lead, adding to the fused alloy one part of bruised bismuth.

  8. During the boiling of the 6 gallons, introduce 6 pounds of litharge gradually, and boil until it feels stringy between the fingers; then ladle or pour it into the pot containing the boiling asphaltum.

  9. Every portion of the matter removed by the sabre is thrown into a copper ladle (poche de gamin), which is emptied from time to time into a cistern of water.

  10. The liquid metal lifted in the drainer, flows readily back through its perforations, and may be at any rate effectually detached by giving the ladle two or three jogs.

  11. Each workman dips his ladle only three times, and empties its contents into the cuvette.

  12. Place an iron ladle or basin, perforated with small holes, on the bottom of the boiler in which the solution is concentrating.

  13. He went on with his housekeeping alone, and took the wooden ladle and skimmed the kettle neatly, for the fish were very plump and fat.

  14. Place the soup tureen and some warm soup plates at the head of the table, lay the soup ladle at the right of the tureen, see that every chair is in its place, and announce that dinner is served.

  15. A crust of bread from the broken bits will easily wipe out a fine china bowl or silver ladle without scratching it as a knife or spoon might do.

  16. They also serve to ladle boiled food from large cook pots into bowls or platters.

  17. A thin slice of phosphorus placed in a deflagrating ladle and placed into the vapour of bromine ignites very quickly.

  18. You dip a ladle into it, and pour out some of the ink upon a plate, in order to convince the audience that the substance in the vase is really ink.

  19. The ladle has a hollow handle with an opening into the bowl.

  20. These, as all the ingredients for the other fires, should be rubbed in a ladle, and they may be used in a ladle or iron dish set on the ground.

  21. Pray, did his highness of Lemonade carry a punch--ladle in his hand?

  22. Some people make light of a silver ladle as an instrument of punishment--it is spoken of as a very slight affair, and that the blows inflicted by it are mere child's play.

  23. I said, for I wanted her to hold the ladle for melting of the lead; 'will you come at once, Annie?

  24. I was glad enough to accept the ladle full of fried batatas, and to make the best of things, which is generally done by letting men have their own way.

  25. Neither failed they of this duty; cut and come again was the order of the evening, as it had been of the day; and I had no time to ask questions, but help meat and ladle gravy.

  26. It is satisfactory to learn that the ladle itself, the only substantial relic of this curious custom, is, in all probability preserved at the present time.

  27. In that year a person named Johnston stood upon what he considered his rights, and would allow no acquaintance to be made between his meal and the iron ladle of the Dumfries hangman.

  28. To see a ladle in your dreams, denotes you will be fortunate in the selection of a companion.

  29. If the ladle is broken or uncleanly, you will have a grievous loss.

  30. Jason, lifting his butter-ladle to the light, and eying its growing symmetry with great satisfaction.

  31. Jason was sitting near the round stand, scooping out a rude butter-ladle with his jackknife, from a thick piece of pine, which he had brought in from the wood-house.

  32. And she flourished the greasy ladle menacingly.

  33. So saying she snatched up the ladle from the dripping-pan, and threatened to belabour him with it.

  34. On Sunday he went to the Seceders' meeting-house, and when the ladle was taken round he put in his bad shilling and took out elevenpence halfpenny.

  35. The story is told of a man who had got himself installed in the eldership, and, in consequence, had for some time carried round the ladle for the collections.

  36. Such were the two beings who now came rushing upon me; the man was rather in advance, brandishing a ladle in his hand.

  37. He stood in this manner for some time; at last the ladle fell from his hand, and its falling appeared to rouse him from his stupor.

  38. When the Fates mean real business there is no petty higgling about their methods; they ladle out Luck not in spoonfuls but with shovels.

  39. He stuck in his hat a ladle called in the Tyrol schoepfer, which is also the German word for Creator, and put in his shoes some earth out of his own field.

  40. We call the Toddy ladle “Euclid,” because he is length without breadth, but he doesn’t mind.

  41. Three years after I was in a manufacturing town 25 miles away looking about, and in a sort of a marine store window noticed a tureen (unmarked) with ladle complete which matched my Turner dish.

  42. In fact, the Witch of Freddam still rides the seas in her coffin, stirring up storms with her ladle and broom.

  43. An old woman beating her husband with a ladle is one of the domestic scenes that tickled the merry monks of Whalley.

  44. An axe and ladle of iron, and a pot and two pins of bronze (Ibid.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ladle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bail; bucket; cup; decant; dip; dish; fork; lade; ladle; pour; scoop; shovel; spade; spoon