How To Use Shovelful In A Sentence
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Don't you hesitate a minute now, Mr. Knapp," said old Mrs. Hennessy heartily; "if it's no more than to put a shovelful of coal on the kitchen fire, you call 14 ring 32 and I'll be right over.
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Every shovelful of dirt taken from the floodway increases its capacity to carry excess water to the north.
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She'd lied herself into a hole as it was, one more shovelful wouldn't hurt.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Should I put another shovelful of coal on the fire?
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Twenty cents, thirty cents, fifty cents, sixty cents, were the values of the gold found in the pans, and at nightfall he washed his banner pan, which gave him a dollar's worth of gold-dust from a shovelful of dirt.
All Gold Canon
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It's just booful, the way it peters out," he exulted when a shovelful of dirt contained no more than a single speck of gold.
All Gold Canon
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There are plenty of bacteria, fungi, and other critters in a shovelful of soil or finished compost to get things cooking.
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And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him.
The Silence
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He had taken a shovelful of embers from the fire, and now he tossed them at her so that she had to dance about to escape the sparks.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire
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The number of self-proclaimed experts on the internet only proves the point that one should take advice with a "shovelful" of salt.
A Shovelful of Salt, Part II: Trigger Weight and Gun Safety
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Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
All Gold Canon
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Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
All Gold Canon
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Peter takes a shovelful of the earth and holds it out to the mourners filing past, each taking a handful and dropping it in.
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Joe's shovelful of dirt smacked Henri in the face at the same moment that Frank's hit Jacques.
THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
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I add a shovelful each of sand and peatmoss to each six shovelfuls of the first mixture.
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You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting.
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Where the side-hill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
All Gold Cañon
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All she needed to do was dump a shovelful of dirt into the flat, pick it up and shake it over the row.