Flat-bladed implement

Usage examples of spatula.

And in this welter of spoiled treasure were the great conjuring books hurled amid the ruin of retorts and aludels of glass and lead and silver, sand-baths, matrasses, spatulae, athanors, and other instruments innumerable of rare design, tossed and broken on the chamber floor.

Put half a pound of fresh butter in a pan with two tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, the juice of a couple of lemons, a little salt and white pepper and mix together well with a spatula, and when it boils stir quickly.

The white-haired server removed the melons, leaving the plates, then used a crude spatula to lever a brown-covered slab of meat onto Annas plate.

Spatulas were caked with mousseline at volatile, whisks were encrusted with oeufs à la Bourguignonne, bulb basters were plugged with beurre d'anchois, and the dried batters that coated some baking dishes were like hardened deposits of lunar cement.

Thermometers, hypodermic syringes bistouries and spatulas were scattered about both on the mantelpiece and on the central table on either side of the sloping desk.

He and two of my residents were working on the burned woman's body, defleshing her as best they could with plastic spatulas, because anything harder might scratch the bones.

And in this welter of spoiled treasure were the great conjuring books hurled amid the ruin of retorts and aludels of glass and lead and silver, sand-baths, matrasses, spatulae, athanors, and other instruments innumerable of rare design, tossed and broken on the chamber floor.

She bent over the banquet table, picked up a silver-handled spatula and scraped beef Wellington across the platter.

Billy moved away from the smoke, waving the spatula in front of his face to clear the air.

In this country it cannot so easily be cultivated in the open as the common Lavender, to which it has a very close similarity, but from which it can be distinguished by the inflorescence, which is more compressed, by the bracts in the axils of which the flowers are placed being much narrower and by the leaves which are broader and spatula shaped.

She was mixing cookie dough with a rubber spatula and she was weeping.

The minute the buzzer went off, she grabbed the cookie sheet out, dropped it on the top of the stove, then scooped up the first cookie with a spatula.

A small table contained a variety of very long-handled, highly polished wooden implements that appeared to be probes, dilators, and spatulas for the nonsurgical investigation of body orifices, some jars of local medication, and, incongruously, the lifeless x-ray scanner left by Conway.

Avery was standing over his barbecue grill, expertly flipping burgers with a metal spatula.

The grilled cheese looked perfect in the fry pan, so I lifted it out with a spatula, slid it onto a plate, and gave it to Oliver.