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"Shovel" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.
They were clearing the snow from the sidewalk with a shovel.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Throw the shovel!
It'll take some time to shovel all the snow off the roof.
He digs untiring with his shovel, yet the hole is not deep enough, never deep enough.
Do you have a shovel I can borrow?
We'll have to shovel the snow off the roof.
He went to the hardware store to get a shovel.
Do you want me to fix your broken shovel or don't you?
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It was said that such train crews kept a spare shovel on board because, on numerous occasions, the beginner had not only zealously thrown coal into the firebox but had let the shovel go as well.
No one seems to like the offer, and the umpire is just coming down, when a queer old hat, something like a doctor of divinity's shovel, is chucked on to the stage […]
The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
Off again, a fierce light now trailing out behind us from the open furnace door, lighting up the fireman as he shovelled more coal on to the furnace, [...].
The coal is then transferred to broad-gauge wagons for transport to Dublin. The transhipment is a rather laborious business, the coal being shovelled by hand from one wagon to another.
Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.
The keeper then seemed to claw it out with fabulous reflexes only for TV replays to show the ball had most probably crossed the line before Forster had shovelled it away.
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