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Example sentences for: shovel

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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.
They are inevitably surprised that I don't want to drive eight hours across the country to see the first shovel of dirt turned for a new road linking two villages that most people in Managua have never heard of, much less anyone in the United States.
Get a shovel.