Tablespoon

//ˈteɪbəlˌspuːn//

"Tablespoon" in a Sentence (15 examples)

In the United States, a tablespoon is equivalent to three teaspoons.

Did you add a tablespoon of salt? The recipe called for just a teaspoon!

Tom poured some cough medicine into a tablespoon.

Mary likes to make a quick Persian mustard salad dressing with 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon of white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Tom adds a tablespoon of ground flaxseeds to his oatmeal every morning.

Add the yolks of two eggs, slightly beaten, and one tablespoon of thick cream.

This spoon is a tablespoon.

I said I needed a tablespoon, not a teaspoon.

The Mars rover Curiosity has successfully bored into and collected the innards of a rock on the Red Planet, yielding about a tablespoon of gray powder that the rover will soon analyze.

Add a tablespoon of olive oil.

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Their eggs were deposited on a few bits of straw, and great caution was necessary in attempting to procure them, as the slightest touch crumbled their frail tenement into dust. By means of a tablespoon, I was enabled to procure many of them.

1995 May 22, Salad Recipes, New York, page 51, Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a nonstick skillet until hot and quickly saute the goat-cheese buttons on both sides until brown.

In Australia, 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml, and there are 4 teaspoons in the Australian tablespoon.

2006, Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts, Murdoch Books, UK, copyright page, If you are using a 15 ml (3 teaspoon) tablespoon, for most recipes the difference will not be noticeable.

2012, James Armstrong, Kellee Hollyman, General, Organic, and Biochemistry: An Applied Approach, Cengage Learning, US, page 27, The problem gives us a number of tablespoons of cooking oil and asks us to convert this amount into milliliters. We are also told that one tablespoon equals 3 teaspoons, but this is a relationship between two units, not an actual measurement.

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