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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.
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.
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].
I shovel very well."