It is very destructive to periwinkles, thrusting its tongue through the mouth of the shell, piercing easily the operculum by which the entrance is closed, and gradually scooping out the unfortunate inmate.
But the actively plied spoons had succeeded in scooping out the last vestige of the soup.
Sharp irrigator's shovels are perfect for scooping up loosened soil and tossing it to one side, for making trenches or furrows in tilled earth and for scraping up the last bits of a compost heap being turned over.
Great numbers of albatrosses nest together on uninhabited islands, each pair scooping together a quantity of clay, grass, and sedge, which they arrange in a conical heap about ten or twelve inches high, with a little hollow at the top.
They are big black beetles, sometimes with two broad yellow stripes across their wing-cases, and they dig by means of their heads, scooping out the earth from under the carcass till it has sunk well below the surface of the ground.
All right," Colin answered, and commencedscooping for the fish.
It stood on the narrow strand of beach for a moment, scooping great handfuls of water for its stricken eye.
A moment later the creature stooped and with a scooping motion of its great right hand picked up the two tiny creatures on the forest floor beneath it.
Diagram of incision for scoopingout a shallow tumour by scissors.
The optic commissure should be freely divided, and then, by bold strokes of curved scissors, or curved probe-pointed bistoury, the orbit may be fairly emptied by scooping out its contents.
Ernest then drew from his pocket the large shell he had procured for his own use, and scooping up a good quantity of soup he put it down to cool, smiling at his own foresight.
The fragments lie thick along the course of the Thorsa, where the encroaching stream is scooping out the clay for the first time since its deposition, and laying bare the scratched and furrowed pebbles.
He was a thoroughly business man, as far as spoons and ladles were concerned, and on this occasion he sat sullenly busy in scooping out the bowl of a new ladle.
Maybe I'll tell you and maybe I won't," he cried, scooping up a handful of sand and spraying her.
Maybe if you would read books you would feel better," said Mrs. Peopping, scooping up a needleful of steel beads.
The act of scoopingout with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
A full fortnight had been spent on digging up imbeciles, while the spy at Yucca Flats had been going right on his merry way, scooping information out of the men at Project Isle as though he were scooping beans out of a pot.
Wash his face," insisted Stanley, suddenly scooping up a handful of snow and beginning to rub it thoroughly into Charlie's eyes and mouth.
Dot, leaning out and scooping up a handful of the beautiful, soft, white stuff.
As he emptied his pan he saw Wabi scoopingup fresh dirt.
Sooner or later these brooks were crossed by cracks; into these cracks the water fell, scooping gradually out for itself a vertical shaft, the resonance of which raised the sound of the falling water to the dignity of thunder.
The scooping power will exert itself most where the weight, and consequently (other things being equal) the motion, is greatest.
Now I submit that this is not the place to seek for the scooping power of a glacier.
Seizing this, he placed it near the hole and, scooping up the gold with his hand, he soon had the can filled to the brim.
Scooping up a quantity of this with his hands he found golden specks all through it as well as a number of small nuggets each about the size of rice.
Fancy the patient toil, lasting year after year, even when the outside was finished, of scooping out the interior, with its great halls and passages!
Ping Wang and Number One were only a yard or two behind him, and soon all three were scooping up handfuls of cartridges and dropping them in the sack.
Illustration: "Soon all three were scoopingup handfuls of cartridges.
Around the piles the grey water laps and swirls, scooping out round holes in which black colonies of mussels nestle.
Finding "all well" she proceeds to form a hole in the sand, which she effects by removing it from under her body with her hind flippers, scooping it out with so much dexterity that the sides seldom if ever fall in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scooping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
