What is "scooping up"

Usage examples of "scooping up".

As this circle is made, the palm is made to rotate at the wrist as if the hand were scooping up some viscous matter (fig.

I sent my own dish-nosed craft surging out beyond them, hoping the unexpected movement would delay the thieves from scooping up their loot.

He knelt on the sandy bottom and began scooping up the sand with his hands.

Then I felt his warm breath on my sticky sex, and he kissed my sloppy snatch, softly at first, then a little harder, scooping up Father Ken’.

Soon, every newsie in the place was down on hands and knees, scooping up dead rodents alongside the Pest Control crews and 'eighty-sixers who'd seen, done, and been through everything.

Placer mining isn't just a matter of scooping up sand and washing it out in a pan.

Without further thought, Kurgan dipped the first two fingers of his right hand, Sarakkonian style, scooping up rings of the cephalopod and its sticky jelly.

Before rescuers could arrive, the cymek ships closed in, scooping up a dozen of the foundering evacuation pods like hyenas stealing morsels of meat.

A moment later, a huge sandworm, driven into a frenzy by the personal shields on the mercenaries, lunged out of the ground like a projectile, its gaping mouth scooping up all of the maddening soldiers in one sweep.

I gripped the blasting rod and started sucking in all the power I could reach, scooping up my recent terror, reaching down into the giggling madness, scraping up all the courage I had left, and pouring it into the kettle with everything else.

Gerrin said with a toothy grin, scooping up a finger load and eating it.

Jasper pantomimed scooping up steel pieces and running them through his stubby dwarven fingers.