Spade

//speɪ̯d//

"Spade" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Jane calls a spade a spade.

He is the type of a person who calls a spade a spade.

Why don't you just call a spade a spade and admit that she dumped you for that American guy she met at the English school?

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Call a spade a spade.

Let's call a spade a spade.

Tom is the type of person who calls a spade a spade.

Why don't you call a spade a spade?

I have to get this spade fixed.

Tom's the kind of person who calls a spade a spade and a lot of people don't like that.

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'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'

"[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built."

I've got only one spade in my hand.

And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.

Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".

It had even gotten to the point that Negroes were no longer in the hip scene, not even as totem figures. It was unbelievable. Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like dig and baby and scarf and split and later and so fine, of civil rights and graduating from Reed College and living on North Beach, down Mason, and balling spade cats—all that good elaborate petting and patting and pouring soul all over the spades—all over, finished, incredibly.

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