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Usage examples of scoop.

The scoops and reactors had operated continuously for dozens of centuries, producing the hydrogen allotrope, though in recent years, it was only a token amount.

Barney said reflexively, and resumed his tinkering with the defective autonomic scoop.

I scooped it onto a hunk of plastic film, folded the fair-size blivit neatly, and left it nearby.

About three feet long, blade broad on top and not tapering much to a bluntish point, it had a short, straight iron guard and a wide, flat-bottomed pommel rounded like a scoop of ice cream.

Even buckytube supermagnets are probably inadequate to this task, but a field too small to serve as an interstellar fuel scoop could still serve well as an unconfined magnetic particle shield.

We had bribed a bulldozer operator to scoop out a room-sized excavation, then move the hootch over it so we could enter it without leaving the building.

A group of pterosaurs had been working the ocean, skimming low over the surface seeking to scoop up fish in their hydrodynamically elegant beaks.

He scooped Marcie into his arms and carried her past the shattered bedroom door.

People stand scooping messes from tin dishes into their mouths, eyes popping with eagerness.

Tilting the canister and reaching inside with a reverent hand, she scooped out the stacks a palmful at a time and laid them gently in the curve of the plate.

Remember, everyone, we are lucky to be the only company that has the inside scoop on these panty hose.

Mrs McLachlan scooped Damp onto her lap, cradled her gently against her pillowy chests and stroked her baby-fluffed head.

I scooped it up and turned in time to catch Plex scrambling for some kind of wall alarm.

She watched with an awful fascination as the stiff maize porridge was scooped from the communal pot in the center of the table by many hands, molded into balls between the fingers and then dipped into buffalo-meat gravy.

They went to work on the green colts daybreak Sunday morning, dressing in the half dark in clothes still wet from their washing them the night before and walking out to the potrero before the stars were down, eating a cold tortilla wrapped around a scoop of cold beans and no coffee and carrying their fortyfoot maguey catchropes coiled over their shoulders.