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Sentence Examples Johnson helped shovel a final layer of soil around a newly planted willow oak. She said that the canal had to be dug with pick and shovel with hundreds of men employed before its opening in the mid eighteenth century. They push carts, assist trackmen and timbermen, shovel dirt and handle material, and do other necessary unskilled work about the mines. Because of individual horse stalls, manual cleaning with a fork or shovel and wheelbarrow, tractor loader, or trailer is common. Perhaps the simplest form of edging is to take a shovel and bevel and edge all around the garden. On arrival, my butty unlocked the tools and gave me my shovel, sledge and mandrill. After some judicious pruning, trim the rootball to size with your shovel and tilt the tree into the hole. A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life. We will find work for you all, and please if you can bring a spade or shovel, brush or knife to work with. He comes over the snow with a shovel and an old dog and scoops up a heap of bare soil left by the moles at night. Grace selected two lilacs and placed them on the fresh mound of dirt before picking up her shovel and moving on to dig the next grave. We bury the skin, fur, head and entrails using a shovel we brought, and then set the meat roasting on a spit on the fire. After a short safety talk and kitted out in gloves and high-vis jackets, we picked up a shovel and pitch fork and got digging. A mechanical shovel was used to load lorries resulting in the decimation of the surface. I mixed one shovel of Portland cement to five shovels of sand, filled the whole area with this mix, tamped it, and then sprinkled it with water. Legions of rebellious young blacks, and non-blacks, happily shovel out colossal dollars to revel in this image. So where it was tougher to get the electrical power to, for the bigger bucketwheels, they've always been using truck and shovel. She went out and helped the boys shovel snow out of the drive and part of the street. Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears. Buddy cuffed Roy on the head, slapped a small shovel in his hands, and gave him a hard shove. Show More Sentences An avalanche forecaster ferrets out a dangerous weakness in the snowpack with the shovel shear test. In Sam's case, a borrowed shovel during a bad winter helped him to build a landscaping business. The old shovel then fell apart and the wallaroo turned on Zac, Mrs Sinton's cattle dog. Then he and his wife shovel snow from the igloo's entrance and wriggle inside. Back into the sitting room they pulled the peats out of the fire and carried them outside on a shovel. When it's time to use it, set the sifter on top of your wheelbarrow or garden cart and shovel some compost into it. Charlie watched the silhouette of Joe shovel dirt into the grave and close the hole. In their free time, the ladies shovel down chili dogs, gamble away their stipends in casinos, and look for eligible men to date. Ger was landed with two smackers from the two stunners after he came out tops with a pint and a shovel! Every piece of the hard rock had to be blasted out before being broken up with pick and shovel. The owner of the shovel grunted and wrenched another mound of dirt out of the ground. I carefully put the slip of paper back into my pocket and wrenched the shovel out of the ground. Forsaking the books, it was pick and shovel for a year of manual labouring for the young David. These women cultivated with simple tools, a hoe, trowel, or shovel in one hand and seeds or fertilizer in the other hand. For potholes or wide cracks, shovel packaged blacktop into a well-cleaned hole and then use an iron rake to level large patches. We store seed wheat in a wooden grainary, we shovel starter fertilizer into the drills by hand, and we still use a moldboard plow. Village cures in their black cassocks and shovel hats, and monks in sandals and brown woollen robes, were everywhere. It is outfitted with andirons and matching tongs and shovel marked by David Phillips, a New York City brass founder. Mix a shovel full of compost, a handful of bone meal, and a little Dolomite lime to the soil which was removed. A small hand shovel was leaning against the dirt wall in front of him and Eron picked it up and began chipping away portions of the wall. Show More Sentences She gave us both an annoyed look, glared at the shovel for good measure, and stalked off. Her body was being covered with leaves and her limbs and neck were hit by a sharp shovel, which was also recovered from the scene. He wears a shovel hat and a tent-tike cape, and usually carries a large, red handkerchief and two crutch-handled walking sticks. I'm told I also need a shovel, cat litter, energy bars, extra water, wool socks, and hand warmers. It is the second time the workman has stared death in the face after striking a live cable with a shovel in Bradford on Avon eight years ago. Saturday I overslept, and then was informed that due to my lateness in getting home that night, I had to shovel the driveway. On the other hand, you still need to have sand, cement and crushed stone trucked in, and then you have to shovel it into the mixer. Goodness me, you wouldn't catch me out there in the early mornings with hair in curlers and a shovel under my arm. Canadian Copper Company steam shovel with locomotive-style boiler, loading roasted ore. When the shovelers come by, they shovel the bread, rats and spoiled meat into the sausage vats. She gathered up a rusty shovel and a pair of rakes and leaned them against a corner. Apparently I'm a bad enough singer that it makes her laugh, and when she opens her mouth to laugh, I can shovel food in. After some hard debate, they decided to take full backpacks, with sleeping bags, a stove, a shovel, and two days' worth of food. Have your kids help shovel the snow off the driveway and use that excess snow to build a huge snow fort. Marcus opened up a bin of coal and began to shovel the black substance into the top of the blast furnace. As he carried the body to the wagon, he could hear the scrape of the shovel on the soil. On the ground, Fogg kept watch with a fieldphone from inside the metal scoop of a steam shovel. In his 1911 book, The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor had written about Schmidt, whose job was to shovel coal. Once the first few inches of ice formed, men were put on the ice to shovel any snow that fell. I didn't know my way around very well, and was rummaging through the toolshed one morning looking for a shovel. Show More Sentences Officers found a pickaxe, shovel without a handle and crowbar. Leaning on the shovel in the pen outside the chicken coop, I was wondering. Soon the only sounds were the clank of a shovel and thuds of dirt being moved. After the blasting has been done the 'fillers' can tumble the coal out, break it up and shovel it on to the conveyor belt. Hurricane-force winds hampered clean-up efforts with high drifts and white-out conditions, and, with snow this deep, you want more than just a shovel. But how is it they never lose that hunger to turn over the next shovel of dirt? In addition to the 18 hours a week she spends riding and lifting weights, she builds her own trails, laboring with shovel and pickax for six hours at a stretch. Moran also pointed out straight edges where a shovel had sliced into the earth. He grabbed a shovel and started identifying mysterious birdcalls, naming previously unknown plants and trees. There are also three meditation classes to lead weekly, and lots of snow to shovel in the wintertime. I'm the last man on earth to suggest you should stay home and shovel squash into a toothless maw just because that's the thing you're supposed to do. With each shovel of dirt lifted up to expose the layer beneath, he's found the markers leading the way to understanding who he was, who he became and who he is meant to be. Use an implement with narrow chisel or shovel point shanks spaced four to five feet apart and drive perpendicular to the direction of the prevalent winds. And Close's nasty, shifting canterings with a shovel before he fells his unfortunate brother and humorously lops off his arm to acquire the ring were shiveringly unpleasant. After propping the shovel against the side of the building, I stamped the snow off my shoes and stepped into the warmth of the office, closing the door against the cold. Two workmen and a mechanical shovel would sort out the whole sorry mess in one weekend at a tiny fraction of the stupid price they are talking about for a bridge. To this day, the Government has not moved a shovel at the proposed site. Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers. Firemen shovel coal on to the fire in the cab and make sure there is enough water in the boiler, while also watching out for any track obstructions. Ren muttered, quickly beginning to shovel his food into his mouth. Show More Sentences The last visitor gone, the Pope donned his scarlet shovel hat, threw a black cloak over his white soutane, assembled a dozen members of his court. Remove a core of soil from the lawn with a trowel or shovel and measure the depth of the thatch, which is the layer of dead grass above the soil line. Julia continues to dig deeper with a small shovel, a garden trowel. The rocks are coated with thick black slime out of reach of the 150 young soldiers with olive green shower capes and buckets and spades to shovel up the filth. Take care of your ash with a coal hod, ash bucket and coal shovel. He'd found the tile in the lowest part of the broken ditch, his shovel ringing against it as he made a few peremptory thrusts into the broken soil. Many of the church dignitaries are distinguishable by peculiarities of dress, as the shovel hat and kirtle. Make sure to take along an ice scraper, battery booster cables, a small shovel, a flashlight and a first-aid kit. With suburban plantings, the ideal situation is to prepare the site with a rototiller rather than a shovel. After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener. The snow was so deep we had to shovel a path to our front door. Next, hand-turn the bed with a shovel, then rototill twice to reduce dirt clods. Place the shovel, the saddle, the holster, the cowboy hat, the frying pan, the bedroll and the guitar on the mule. Verbal paraphasia is the substitution of a word with a related meaning, such as rake for shovel. Then I levelled the sand and lightly packed soil with the rake and shovel and put in a star picket to indicate where it was. And, well knowing that where there's muck there's always money, armed with bucket and shovel we shadowed horses, scooping up doo-doo. Explosive blasting, truck and shovel, bulldozer and dragline are all used to loosen both the overburden and the coal. I don't approve of petticoat government, as a general thing, but I'll be shot with a shovel if it ain't necessary with fellows like Stanhope! A shovel, a polaski and a gieke can for putting out campfires, disinfectant for cleaning outhouses and picnic tables. Males may also use their antlers to shovel around fallen foliage and soil as a way of attracting a mate. Show More Sentences The typical paddle wheel steamship was powered by a coal burning engine that required firemen to shovel the coal to the burners. Remove any debris with a shovel or entrenching tool before leaving the worksite. In the early 20th century some locomotives became so large that the fireman could not shovel coal fast enough. Prior to the red flag logo, the party had used a modified version of the classic 1924 shovel, torch and quill emblem. I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared. The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade. Make sure you have things like a flashlight, jumper cables, ice scraper, shovel, and snowbrush, windshield wiper fluid, and warning devices. Step 7 Make castellations by putting very wet sand on the back of your shovel while patting it. A chef who worked in several French palaces, he recommended caramelising the sugar with a hot coal shovel. Heavy, wet snow is harder for snowblowers to handle, so many residents in Saturn's path may find themselves out on the sidewalk or in the driveway with shovel in hand. The giant steam shovel was to dredge the creek to a depth of two metres. A backhoe loader, also known as digger in layman's terms, is earthmoving equipment that comprises a tractor fitted with a shovel in front and a backhoe at the back. These were obtained by blasting or drilling and breaking of the calcified ancient cave infill or by pick and shovel excavation of the softer decalcified infills. Travel with an emergency kit such as jumper cables, ice scraper, shovel, a flashlight, extra batteries, blankets, deicer, flares, water and a cell phone. With the help of a screwback shovel, it was excavated to a depth of 13 ft. The overburden is then removed by draglines or by shovel and truck. A backhoe loader is a type of earthmoving equipment, which consists of a tractor unit fitted with a shovel on the front, and a backhoe at the back. Never go off-road without the air compressor, shovel and tyre gauge. That was after you'd done an hour of preparation, which included cleaning lamps, water gauge, detonators and spanners, pick and shovel and fire irons. Edison helped to turn the first shovel of earth for the museum which serves as a museum to display both Paine relics as well as others of local historical interest. Show More Sentences Any old concrete mixer or plaster pugmill will do for a blender, and a square shovel or hoe on a concrete slab would be good enough for a government job. In a mine, the pasty's dense, folded pastry could stay warm for several hours, and if it did get cold, it could easily be warmed on a shovel over a candle. I thought about the strips of ice, beautiful skateable ice, that emerged from underneath his shovel as he cleared the deep, powdery snow off our pond. It is a modified steam shovel and operates in a similar fashion. Until the late nineteenth century coal was mined underground using a pick and shovel, and children were often employed underground in dangerous conditions. The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel. Approximately three chambers are periodically fed with fuel by lifting the metal lid from the feedhole, charging fine coal with a small hand shovel and then replacing the lid. Examples from Classical Literature A man who knocks about a sandy land in a sharpie should always carry a shovel with him. I was trying to fit the shovel in and I remember saying that is too asymmetric. He was in deshabille and was sweeping out his office with a hard brush and shovel. The shovel card is kept by the shovel runner or the fireman, and the train record is kept by the dinkey runner. A good sized garden shovel on one side and a big canvas bag on the other expedites bank transactions in the islands. He was too light for the work, which would have glutted the capacity of a steam shovel. How delicious is flattery, even when thrown down one's throat with a shovel! But she did not smile when the shovel hat was removed, together with the wig and the glasses. Anne held out her hand, and courtesied in response to the bow and wave of the shovel hat. The lawyer, shocked out of his dreaming, looked up and recognized the singular figure of the little man in the shovel hat. Even a bishop might give it an occasional inspection, without derogation from the decorum of his shovel hat and gaiters. The like of me to preach to a parson, all regular done up, bands and cassock and shovel hat and all! Here he set a sluice-box and put his three little miners at work with pick, pan and shovel. I'd better get a wrecking train with a crane on it and a steam shovel here. Can anyone imagine how a thought can turn into a steam shovel, or a steam shovel into a thought? The regular employees for operating a steam shovel are the engineman, cranesman, fireman and four laborers. The steam shovel, or steam excavator, is a modified form of dredge adapted for excavating material on dry land. The pit track in the rear of the steam shovel is used as a repair track for cars. From gum benzoin, either alone or mixed with olibanum or styrax, thrown on hot cinders or a heated shovel. An instance occurs at Lewisham in which the idea is conveyed by the pick and shovel under a flourishing palm. Show More Sentences Hugh and I went directly to this lower chamber to get a shovel for our work. Pressley, unlashing a mattock and shovel from his pack, did not notice him. He brandished the shovel with which he had been shamefully forced to feed the maws of the furnaces. Clarence shifted his shovel from his shoulders, unslung his pan, and looked at Flynn. On their packs hung dusty, weatherworn canteens, a pick and shovel, and a rifle in its soiled and frayed scabbard. This plater began to shovel overboard, working with furious energy, as though combating a hated enemy. These may be mashed with a stout hoe or shovel, or with a block like a pavier's rammer. And so saying rampike laid aside his shovel, put on his coat, and led the way down to a big tent in the middle of the mining camp. Even as the little party watched, the great shovel plunged down, straight down, burying its great teeth in the rooty ground. The besom and shovel and wheelbarrow are the only proper tools for doing this. Jurgis was given a shovel, and along with half a dozen others it was his task to shovel this fertilizer into carts. He has a toy shovel and a pickaxe and a little axe that will cut. When the musing spider steps upon the red-hot shovel, he first exhibits a wild surprise, then he shrivels up. Riding up and down the street with a red snow shovel balanced over one shoulder. As a mechanical product it was no more remarkable than a steam shovel. A steam shovel is a labor-saving, and this a soldier-saving, device. Compare the two things, a state of consciousness and say, a steam shovel. One of them wore a fantail cap, and held a shovel and dust-basket. So that you could without trouble convert these tongs into a hoop and yonder shovel into a corkscrew? The weighed portion of the ore is placed on the vanning shovel. Show More Sentences The paddle end had been used as a shovel, beheader and shell-cracker. Jack and Alfonso were supplied with a pickax, a shovel and a basket. An old road-mender was standing near a heap of stones, his shovel dropped and his hands raised. Outside, by an ash-pit, he found a bucket and half-buried shovel. So he set to work with pick and shovel all the rest of that day. It was Brother Paul coming up with a spade to shovel away the snow. They do not care to go back to the track, the pickax and the shovel. In a trembling voice she asked me if I would please find a shovel. I did not offer to go and fetch up my shovel, which was left down below. Nidart put the shovel in his wife's hand, and took up the pickax. He had apparently just come in, for he had his shovel hat in his hand. The chaplain gave such a start as made him drop his shovel hat. Back in Dawson, though he remained true to his word and never touched hand to pick and shovel, he worked as hard as ever in his life. The sight seemed to paralyze me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead. With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and follow the marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, or as if you had struck on a vein of gold, deep into the earth. Feverish with desire, with aching back and stiffening muscles, with pick and shovel gouging and mauling the soft brown earth, the man toiled up the hill. In spite of splitting headaches he would stagger down to the plant and take up his stand once more, and begin to shovel in the blinding clouds of dust. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shovel? Words that rhyme with shovel What is the past tense of shovel? What is the plural of shovel? What is the adjective for shovel? What is the noun for shovel? Translations for shovel Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words shove-halfpenny shoved shove shouty shouts shout-outs shoveled shoveler shovelful shovelfuls shovelhead shoveling 6-letter Words Starting With s sh sho shov shove