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Scooped in sentence

17 examples of Scooped in a sentence

We call it being scooped, and being scooped feels horrible.
The columns and the ground is made of tabby shales scooped up from the Atlantic, a reminder of that awful crossing.
I've seen sort of OK pictures of bycatch, the animals accidentally scooped up while fishing for a specific species.
He'll build a model, and then we're going to be scooped.
And boy, I was scared because I thought, you know, we may be scooped.
In a typical year four million dogs and cats were killed, most of them within 24 hours of being scooped off of the street.
So when it was finally done, and in the first night a guy came with big plastic bags and scooped up as many coins as he could possibly carry, one of the neighbors called the police.
The beginning of the film consists of what can only politely be described as bits of scenes scooped up from the cutting-room floor of udder bad moovies, stitched together in the vain hope of setting the scene for the film, and over-earnestly narrated by some guy who never appears again.
I scooped up this title by accident with the Grindhouse Vol. 1 collection of pure Euro-trash movies.
A whole crowd of people being scooped up by a fleet of mechanical diggers!
The Legend of the Mummy is so bad, I would rather have my brain removed through my nose and my innards scooped out and placed in jars than watch it again.
The boys are miners in this brilliantly lighted mine with twenty foot ceilings and gravel just waiting to be scooped up.
Major reasons why researchers hesitate to share their data, according to the same survey, include intellectual property or confidentiality issues, fears about misinterpretation or misuse of their work, or concerns that their research would be scooped.
He’s scooped you on your main idea, although he hasn’t thought through the implications, or worked out all the other ideas that comprise your theory.
The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick--a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.
It is many and many a year since the hapless half-breed scooped out the stone to catch the priceless drops, but to this day the tourist stares longest at that pathetic stone and that slow-dropping water when he comes to see the wonders of McDougal's cave.
Gradually, however, as his neighbours plied him with drink, his shoulders grew squarer, his back stiffened, his eyes brightened, and he looked about him, with an air of surprise at first, as if he had no clear recollection of how he came there, and afterwards with an expression of deepening interest, as he listened, with his ear scooped up in his hand, to the conversation around him.