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Example sentences for "scooped"

Lexicographically close words:
scollops; sconce; sconces; scones; scoop; scooping; scoops; scoor; scoot; scooted
  1. Grant scooped up the rolling sphere and heard Nelson's sharp cry to put it to first.

  2. He went after it instantly, scooped it up and shot it to Crane at first, but it arrived a bare second too late.

  3. As I sat there trying to probe that sealed address, a fast train came along and scooped the bag off the hook.

  4. Then she scooped Catherine up from the floor and dropped her into my bed, and then rolled Catherine into one of those hospital doodads that hospitals use for male and female alike as bedclothing.

  5. En-Noor having bad eyes, ordered the eyes of this bird of prey to be scooped out for a medicine.

  6. They lay their two or three eggs on the ground in slight hollows scooped out of the sand.

  7. Two or three eggs constitute a complete set; these are laid on the sand in a slight hollow scooped out by the birds.

  8. His stout mittens temporarily protected his hands, and he scooped live coals into the air in all directions, until the campfire took on the semblance of a volcano.

  9. One Eye scooped out mouthfuls of the blood-soaked snow, and chewed and tasted and swallowed.

  10. A couple of bounds, a flash of teeth and a frightened squawk, and he had scooped in the adventurous fowl.

  11. The path gradually ascended, dipping into valleys scooped out in the horizontal sandstone down to the basalt; and boulders of the same rock were scattered about.

  12. The Lachoong is here twelve or fifteen yards wide, and runs over a pebbly bed, cutting a shallow channel through the deposits, down to the subjacent rock, which is in some cases scooped out six or eight feet deep by its waters.

  13. There was scooped Upon the mountain's southern slope, a grave; And there they laid her, in the very garb With which the maiden decked herself for death, With the same withering wild flowers in her hair.

  14. I stood upon the upland slope, and cast My eye upon a broad and beauteous scene, Where the vast plain lay girt by mountains vast, And hills o'er hills lifted their heads of green, With pleasant vales scooped out and villages between.

  15. French roll, scooped out and fried for that purpose, and sauce over.

  16. I saw two men wade to a body in the river, when they pulled away the covering from the face and bathed it with handfuls of water scooped from beloved Ganga, and their every movement denoted affection.

  17. In Cairo and Alexandria it is flippantly said that De Lesseps traced with his gold-headed walking-stick the course of the canal in the sand, while hundreds of thousands of unpaid natives scooped the soil out with their hands.

  18. If desired, the squash may be scooped from the shells after baking, seasoned at that time instead of when put in the oven, and then served in a vegetable dish.

  19. Usually a section of the top is cut off to serve as a lid while the inside is scooped out as needed.

  20. A place for fire was scooped in the middle; and the pieces of venison were hung in the smoke that poured through the open top.

  21. There were hand-holds scooped out here and there in the rock; foot-holds chiselled rudely; and all bore the mark of no little age.

  22. Again the fielder had no trouble in reaching it ere it fell to the ground, and Grant scooped and held it while running lightly forward.

  23. But Newbert, racing forward as soon as the sphere left his fingers, scooped it cleanly with one hand and snapped it across to third without straightening up.

  24. Piper fell a victim to the wiles of Sanger; Nelson's scorching grounder was scooped by Roberts; and away out in left garden Dingley made a brilliant running catch of Barker's splendid long drive.

  25. The effect is as if the front room in every first floor was scooped out, and the upper stories of the premises supported on pillars, while the lower tier of rooms, thus purloined, are occupied as shops.

  26. Thee scooped out the ground on the Squire's side, wur the bend wur, and put the mud on thy side.

  27. In favourable localities a narrow precipitous gully, twenty or thirty feet deep, may thus be scooped out in the course of a few years.

  28. Those which occupy true basins scooped by glacier ice out of the solid rock.

  29. He scooped all into his arms, climbed the fence and trotted into the woods.

  30. You scooped in Durham and Newry and a lot of others.

  31. Next come the Great and Little Saucer Stones, so named from the cavities scooped out upon them.

  32. One is locally termed the Buttock Stone, and near it is a block which has a circular cavity scooped out on its flat upper surface.

  33. Borlase, in his Antiquities of Cornwall, notices the existence of Druidical Rock Basins, which appear to have been scooped out of the granite rocks and boulders which lie on the tops of the hills in the county.

  34. Then Mother scooped out his insides and chopped them up fine.

  35. In the middle he scooped out a little hole with his heel.

  36. So Dangdangáyan went in front of them, and he scooped them up with his headaxe and put them inside of his belt.

  37. As soon as she arrived at the river she took her headaxe and scooped up the blood which was carried by the stream and she went back to Dagápan.

  38. These are made in the same way, but cut in small rounds, the crumb of the larger is scooped out, and the hollow filled with any of the varieties of patty preparations or preserved fruits.

  39. Slyly he raised the sash and scooped up a big handful of snow from the broad ledge outside.

  40. More snow had been scooped from the window-sill by Fred and Joe, and soon a battle-royal was in progress in the dormitory.

  41. As he scooped it up, a pike happened to get into his pail.

  42. And she went straight up to the woman who had been spinning, scooped up from the floor a handful of the dust that had fallen out of the flax, and began stuffing and stuffing that woman's eyes full of it!

  43. But we may know more about it when we have scooped the snow away.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scooped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.