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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ladle .
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Examples
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The wayside grocer met their temporal needs – clarified butter ladled from the earthenware pot, into Dwarki's brass lota, with a liberal supply of red kunkun.
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Lobbyist Kevin A. Ring, 40, faces charges of conspiracy, fraud and making an illegal gratuity as part of a lavish four-year scheme that ladled out more than $1 million in meals, tickets and trips to federal officials in exchange for benefits to clients of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Retrial of Abramoff lobbyist Ring starts, tests corruption fight in capital Spencer S. Hsu 2010
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“See Ernest Dowson, page seventy-nine, a thin book of thin verse ladled out with porridge to young women detentioned at Mills Seminary,” Forrest went on.
CHAPTER III 2010
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Her perfume is overpowering and fills the car, as if ladled onto her dark skirt and striped blouse to cover up whatever she's gone through in the week it took her to get to here.
The Next Side Road Barry Basden 2012
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Let us not forget that it was the NYT who mocked Robert Goddard into seclusion and secrecy by offering their wisdom that the premise of a rocket working in a vacuum with nothing to react against was absurd, and thus Goddard "seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily to high school students."
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Lobbyist Kevin A. Ring, 40, faces charges of conspiracy, fraud and making an illegal gratuity as part of a lavish four-year scheme that ladled out more than $1 million in meals, tickets and trips to federal officials in exchange for benefits to clients of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Retrial of Abramoff lobbyist Ring starts, tests corruption fight in capital Spencer S. Hsu 2010
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But, Brian, we had oil, sitting in puddles on the ground, waiting to be ladled up!
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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Howard Fay, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, ladled meatballs in the kitchen.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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She ladled the punch carefully into the mugs and meditated.
CHAPTER 20 2010
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Lesser fly-on-the-wall programmes would have ladled the pathos on with a shovel but there's an unfussy, understated humanity here.
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