How to Use silver spoon in a Sentence

silver spoon

noun
  • There's no silver spoons in her draws.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Small gold or silver spoons or small jigs are good lures.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But there's not going to be a silver spoon.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
  • But there's not going to be a silver spoon.
    — Sharareh Drury, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026
  • One of the world's richest men wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Joseph Fung knows full well that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
    — John Kang, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2023
  • There the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been the worst.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2025
  • One silver spoon drops to the floor and the crowd, collectively, gasps.
    — Kate Walbert, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Many are weaned on the silver spoon, born halfway between third and home but never scoring.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • This election is a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a silver spoon.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 26 June 2025
  • Born with a silver spoon in his mouth and aligned with an unpopular president.
    — Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 22 June 2026
  • Trump was born with a silver spoon; Lee’s gambling addict father was too poor to even provide crayons.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And each coffee is served with a small water in a delicate little glass, with a silver spoon balanced across the top.
    — Christine Van Blokland, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
  • An antique silver spoon idled in a measuring cup, its dull face catching an errant ray of sunlight that cut through the loft.
    — Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Behind her, sprays of cheap tinsel are pinned to the wall; before her, a silver spoon sits on a table like an offering.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Rounding out this month’s items are a fine-quality silver spoon, a spelter sculpture and a faience bowl, all from France.
    — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Perfect for stirring in some cream or sugar, this 6-pack of matching silver spoons makes table setting a breeze.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But Ivanka, who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, playing hapless heroine who finally gets her due?
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Believe it or not, they weren’t born with silver spoons in their mouths and billion-dollar TV deals in their pockets.
    — David Whitley, The Tennessean, 21 May 2024
  • Sticking out is never easy, especially in a sport like golf, where most prodigies are fed their daily dose of lessons with a silver spoon.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • White bass – fair to good on silver spoons or cut shad while drifting or trolling near shallow points or rip rap; wipers – fair to good trolling with sassy shad baits, crankbaits, spoons or cut shad.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Many successful individuals weren’t born with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouths.
    — Dear Abby, oregonlive.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The film follows Jesper (voiced by Jason Schwartzman), a lazy young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Some saw him as a cocky rich boy, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and placed by mere birthright at the head of the powerful multinational founded by his grandfather.
    — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Traditionally, Rhodeslis would present the same lemon fondant in a silver spoon called a kochara along with a glass of water as a sweet welcome for guests.
    — Andrew Harris, Slate Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
  • His responses to demands for sweetness were aristocratic, measured with a silver spoon.
    — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • This silver spoon has been given to the oldest daughter in my family for the last several generations.
    — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Fine china and silver spoons are examples in contrast to simple ceramic dishware or aluminum flatware, which work just as well.
    — Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • And celebrities publicly popping the silver spoon out of their children’s mouths comes against the larger backdrop of a fascination with nepo babies.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • All this suggests that Mangione may prove to be a figure out of a Dostoyevsky novel — Raskolnikov with a silver spoon.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 14 Dec. 2024

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