Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.
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Shovel
/ˈʃʌv.əl/
Synonyms for "shovel" (79 found)
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7 entriescoal shovelearth diggingelectric shovelsand excavationsnow removalsnow shovelsteam shovel
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8 entriescoal shovelgarden shovelhand shovelheavy shovelpower shovelsnow shovelsteam shovelsteel shovel
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19 total sentences available.
They were clearing the snow from the sidewalk with a shovel.
Source: tatoeba (307528)
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.
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Throw the shovel!
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