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How to use spatula in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Spatula means a kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food. Example: “Removing the cooked food from the oil with a slotted spatula lets it drain better.”

Examples of spatula by meaning

nounA croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.

  • The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula.1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

nounA sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.

  • The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar.2015 November 2, Donald B. Thomas, John A. Goolsby, “Morphology of the Preimaginal Stages of Lasioptera donacis Coutin (Diptera...

verbTo lift with or as if with a spatula.

  • So if you get road-pizzaed, should you have to pay in order to get yourself spatulaed off of the street?1997 May 15, Toby, “Any same-sex marriage opposition?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet)
  • Eddie spatulaed the patty onto a bun and extracted tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced pickles from a Tupperware.2018 March 13, Bruce Holbert, Whiskey: A Novel, MCD, →ISBN, page 4

More sentences with spatula

  • Removing the cooked food from the oil with a slotted spatula lets it drain better.From the entry slotted
  • Use a thin spatula to turn blinchiki and brown the other side, about 30 seconds.2021, Holly Sinclair, World Cuisine at Home: International Family Menus & Recipes from Around the World, revised edition, →ISBN. From the entry blinchik
  • She preferred a swift smack on the hinnerdale with the spatula.2019 June 25, Jennifer Beckstrand, Andrew, Zebra Books, →ISBN. From the entry hinnerdale
  • Cleaning the pastry cutter with her spatula, Corie’s mind dipped to the little journal of Natalie’s.2016, Ashley Elizabeth Ludwig, chapter 29, in First Crush, Raleigh, N.C.: Bling! Romance, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry google translate
  • Keep a heatproof spoonula (a curved, spoonlike spatula) at the ready.2014, Aarti Sequeira, Aarti Paarti: An American Kitchen with an Indian Soul, Grand Central Life & Style, →ISBN. From the entry spoonula
  • The layers are then dissected by cutting down on the spatula with a supersharp knife.2005, Gilbert Smolin, Charles Stephen Foster, Dimitri T Azar, Claes H Dohlman, The Cornea: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Practice. From the entry supersharp
  • Scurrying in the background were the dishwashers who cleaned up every greasy pan, dirty spatula, and sticky bottle.2022, Melissa Clark, Dinner in One, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry dishwasher
  • On each side of spatula 3 asetose lateral papillae grouped together, and one asetose ventral papilla somewhat farther away.2015 July 2, Dorchin N, Astrin JJ, Bodner L, Harris KM, “Morphological and Molecular Revision of the Genus Ozirhincus (Diptera…. From the entry asetose
  • So we make these little spatulas. . . .2011, John White, Parents in Pain, page 64. From the entry scrape someone off the ceiling
  • To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61. From the entry knit up
  • If you have a cookie spatula, slide it under the makowiec and transfer it to the baking pan.2007, Greg Patent, A Baker's Odyssey, page 219. From the entry makowiec
  • But a long, sportjacketed arm swooped in and a big hand palmed the whole stack like pancakes on a spatula.1986 June 21, Mike Robinson, “Bill Bradley, the tax reformer”, in Daily Globe, number 265, Worthington, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4…. From the entry sportjacketed
  • Use a spatula to lift the eggs from the pan one at a time, and flip over directly on top of the melted cheese.2003, Diane Morgan, Peter Medilek, Midnight munchies. From the entry yummo
  • Drop the batter by heaping serving-spoonfuls (about 2 tablespoons each) into the hot fat, pulling in the edges of the cakes with a metal spatula to prevent spreading.1989, Lucy Wing, editor, Country Living Country Mornings Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Books, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry serving-spoonful

Meaning of spatula

  1. noun A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
  2. noun A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
  3. noun A palette knife.

Full definition of spatula

Questions about spatula in a sentence

How do you use spatula in a sentence?
Spatula is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Removing the cooked food from the oil with a slotted spatula lets it drain better.”
What is a short sentence with spatula?
“So we make these little spatulas. . . .”
What does spatula mean?
Spatula means a kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spatula (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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