Common dosage

Usage examples of spoonful.

Angela reached for the sugar and sprinkled a spoonful of it into the bowl as the beater churned up the cream.

He was hardly an epicurean, but he surely would have noticed the first time he slurped up a spoonful of Malathion or Sevin.

Angels last, in countless milliards, one for every soul, one perhaps for every living being, down to the atomies that a lens could show wriggling in a spoonful of garden dirt.

The smell of it was like the spicy winds of Arabia, that you read about in the Bible, and when you had taken a spoonful you felt as happy as if you had sellt a hundred yowes at twice their reasonable worth.

Then he cautiously uncorked a small bottle of dark blue glass and shook a spoonful of white crystals onto the middle of the handkerchief.

Pigache, a spoonful of which Castaing had given to Auguste Ballet, had been analysed and showed no trace of poison.

She kept a supply of vanilla ice cream loaded with butterfat in the freezer, and if she allowed small spoonfuls to melt on her tongue, one after another, until she could hold no more, it was the easiest way to absorb nourishment.

Wrenching her gaze from the glitter, Diane concentrated on a plate of turtle soup, but sidled a nod to Cardiff, between spoonfuls.

Add two dessertspoonfuls of onions chopped fine, a dessertspoonful of whole pepper, one of allspice, one of cloves, and half a spoonful of cayenne pepper.

Beat to a smooth, thin batter two eggs, three spoonfuls of milk and a little flour, season, dip each piece of the chicken in this batter and fry a rich brown in the heated butter.

Mina dumped another spoonful of manomin into her bowl before throwing her coat around her shoulders and trudging back to her cabin.

It was crowded, but very nesty, and as sweet as a spoonful of molasses.

When the door did open it was to blinding light and there stood in it no ministress in white but a demandadero in stained and wrinkled khakis bearing a metal messtray with a double spoonful of pozole spilled over it and a glass of orange soda-water.

Then she slowly ate a spoonful of sherbert as though it were the only thing keeping her alive.

The maize porridge was unsalted and unflavored pap, and the portion no more than three spoonfuls, but the Captain expected fulsome acknowledgment of his generosity.