Scoop in a sentence as a noun

If it went well, he'd swoop in and scoop up the credit.

You can simply take a complete car, grind it up, melt and scoop all the bits non-metal.

If the company has decent employees, then you could scoop them all up.

Journalists are highly motivated to plough through the data for the scoop.

Scoop in a sentence as a verb

The only thing that's more disappointing than the NSA spying is the NYT sitting on this scoop for more than a year, and letting Der Spiegel break it.

Here's the scoop:The FAA has long had rules for model aircraft, which would include many small "drones", and under which you can personally operate them now.

So in it's eagerness to scoop up all digital communications, it killed the majormost way for citizens to communicate while in the midst of a civil war.

NYT shows its bias with passages such as"In one passage, Mr. Greenwald makes the demonstrably false assertion that one “unwritten rule designed to protect the government is that media outlets publish only a few such secret documents, and then stop,” that “they would report on an archive like Snowden’s so as to limit its impact — publish a handful of stories, revel in the accolades of a ‘big scoop,’ collect prizes, and then walk away, ensuring that nothing had really changed.” Many establishment media outlets obviously continue to pursue the Snowden story.

Scoop definitions

noun

the quantity a scoop will hold

See also: scoopful

noun

a hollow concave shape made by removing something

See also: pocket

noun

a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"

See also: exclusive

noun

street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

See also: soap goop

noun

the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

noun

a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

verb

take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"

verb

get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"

See also: outdo outflank trump best