What is "scoop up"

Usage examples of "scoop up".

The droids moved in to scoop up the loose rock, sending spray and mud flying as they rumbled up the slopes.

Then, too, naked slave girls were ordered to the riches, to scoop up sapphires in goblets and carry them about the tables, serving them to the men, kneeling, head down, arms extended, as though they might be wine, and the warriors, laughing, reached into the cups and seized jewels.

Then, too, naked slave girls were ordered to the riches, to scoop up sapphires in goblets and carry them about the tables, serving them to the men, kneeling, head down, arms extended, as though they might be wine, and the warriors, iaughing, reached into the cups and seized jewels.

A ten-foot retractable claw will scoop up samples of the soil for inspection while other delicately attuned instruments check temperature, atmosphere conditions, and wind speed (Viking landers are designed to touch down in gales of up to 150 miles per hour).

But O'Hara, she'd want the chance to scoop up that big, juicy pot.

Then he would scoop up the pebbles, and Palani would name his bets, and the first man to win one hundred points would win the other's roof.

He soaped himself all over, then squatted in the water to rinse in the same manner she had, cupping his palms to scoop up the water.

And perhaps treasure of another kind, some said: if they could reach back into any century of historic times and bring people back, why not scoop up works of art, rare books and manuscripts, valuable objects of all sorts?

Endre would have moved off right on Thainn's heels, but as he stepped forward, Kelyn caught the back of his pants, and held him long enough to scoop up the thin leather square.

The handles of these nets, however, were thirty feet long and the net purse could scoop up a ton of living fish at a time.

The sight of her making the blubbering warrior scoop up the now doubly precious fruit gave Vale the steadying he needed.

Jack tarried for a moment to scoop up a couple of the big cat’.