Example sentences for: shovel

How can you use “shovel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • All one needs, it seems, are two 4-inch-by-4-inch posts, a shovel or post-hole digger, a net, a fluorescent orange plastic rope (to mark court boundaries), and a ball.

  • From one point of view, Johns' flags and targets derive from the famous ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp--the urinal, the bicycle wheel, the snow shovel, all exhibited before 1920.

  • And nobody's worked them to death or bashed their heads in with a shovel.

  • Any sign of restlessness, for instance, is summed up as, All of a motion like a Mulfra toad on a red hot shovel, and when shivering, it is a case of cold as a quilkin [frog] or chilled to the marra [marrow].

  • The earnest Macy, the whitest man imaginable, has been given an African-American wife, to whom he must constantly defend his unrealized ambitions: "I shovel well.


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