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How to use spadeful in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word spadeful? Here are some examples.

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And they cannot put more than one spadeful of rubbish in each bag as it may tear.
You'll use much less soil if you find a way to keep the soil where you want it rather than having each spadeful cascade all over the place.
This hypothesis crumbled at the first spadeful below the topsoil.
The day's work ends around five, in time for tea and chatter about this or that spadeful of triumph or mystery.
The first spadeful revealed five crocosmia corms stacked vertically, like buns in a bakery.
Vacheron Constantin has given shape to its project for new international headquarters and workshops in Geneva by digging up the traditional first spadeful of earth on the site at Plan-les-Ouates, in the Geneva countryside.
Our last contorted expression will be a tragic mixture of horror and embarrassment as someone shovels a spadeful of icy gravel on to our face and those of every other corpse in the limey pit.
This week the BBC threw another spadeful of dirt on the grave by decreeing in its latest style guide that Fleet Street was no longer a useful synonym for the print media.
Examples from Classical Literature
But to deny what we cannot prove, not even casts into our ice-house a spadeful of snow.
He made a sign to the drummer, who handed him a paddle, with which he turned over a spadeful of earth.
Every spadeful of earth was carefully examined, and the probe thrust down anxiously and with great caution.
Then a spadeful of earth was dropped upon his chest and he was dead-living dead.
Yesterday a spadeful of diamonds dumped upon a velvet cloth was only a spadeful of diamonds to him, and it was nothing more.
When a spadeful of the clay was turned up it glittered all over.
It was hard to cast the first spadeful of earth upon the coffin.
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