How to Use shovel in a Sentence

shovel

1 of 2 noun

• Daggett said the goal is to have shovels in the ground by spring 2025.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2024
• The East Bay bike path was one of those shovel-ready projects.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• His time with a shovel hasn’t changed the world, or even his own life.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• Here's a shovel that won't let him down even when the snow piles up.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 3 Dec. 2022
• The victim was found dead in his home next to a bloody shovel.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Govier briefly left the snake to grab a shovel and a rake from the garage, per the outlet.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
• Shop this rolling snow plow for $84 and this snow shovel for $36.
  — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2022
• There are lots of shovel-ready projects, lots of ribbons to be cut over the next two years.
  — NBC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• The surest way to make money in AI is the same way as during any gold rush: just sell the shovels.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
• The employees used shovels and trash bins to clean up the mess, filling the store’s trash bin.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• After an hour, turn the hose off and dig a few more little test pits with a shovel.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
• Be sure to pack a small sand shovel to make the task a little easier.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• Toss a gallon or so of your mix into the dirt, then use your shovel to mix it into the earth.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• The tiny bucket and shovel take this idea from Ashley Byrom of Stage.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
• Residents should bring a shovel and be prepared to fill the bags.
  — David Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022
• Five neighbors showed up at his front yard with shovels.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The whole scene is surrounded with pickaxes, shovels, and the remains of the dead.
  — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
• After the last shovel of dirt, men wiped sweat and tears out of their eyes and traced another slow arc around the edge of the cemetery.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
• The shovel is to be prominent in the new school’s collection of souvenirs.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Gates captures Wednesday by hitting her over the head with a shovel and using her blood to open the crypt.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
• That can be a literal pain, but the spring assist on this shovel will keep the strain to a minimum.
  — Annie Gabillet, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
• And if the snow is deep enough, it must be dug out by crews with shovels to allow people to access the chairs at the lift stations.
  — Jane Tyska, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• The backhoe shuddered to a stop, and two workers from the funeral home jumped into the grave with shovels to dig out the rest of the earth by hand.
  — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Fans drive plows, shovel, use snowblowers, spread salt and, in many cases, scoop up the snow with their bare hands.
  — Jalen Wright, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Brush and trees were cleared in March at the 7044 Pearl Road site in anticipation of getting shovels in the ground.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 27 July 2023
• Get out your shovels, then, Congress, and start cleaning our courts.
  — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• In the decades to come, the company, now called Tripp Lite, became a pick-and-shovel business of the digital gold rush.
  — Andrew Perez, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2022
• For around $19, an employee will bring you out to the water’s edge with a shovel to dig up a bread tin that was buried there the prior day.
  — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2022
• The first period was a perfect example of a team stuck in a deep hole and trying to use a shovel to get out.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• Years ago, when kids built little ramps at the side of a ski run, ski patrollers would demolish them with shovels and threaten to confiscate the kids’ lift tickets.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024

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shovel

2 of 2 verb

• I have to shovel the driveway.
• I had to shovel for an hour to clear the driveway.
• The snow was so deep we had to shovel a path to our front door.
• Stop shoveling food into your mouth.
• He is outside shoveling snow.
• To weed, to paint, to rake the leaves To shovel all that snow.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• The other method is to shovel a clean path down to the ice.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2020
• That’s a lot of mouths to feed and coats to brush and manure to shovel.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• In the episode, the girl was seen helping in the garden, shovel in hand.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
• Across the northern states, a spoon means there will be lots of snow to shovel.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2020
• The deep blade allows the user to shovel and push snow.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
• Snow should not be shoveled or moved in any way into the streets.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Sometimes hiring it out is the best way to shovel snow!
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 10 Dec. 2020
• Don't throw out your back while throwing out the snow - here are some tips on how to shovel snow the right way!
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
• Eight volunteers came by to help shovel out all the sand.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
• Brigades of men in one block were trying to shovel it into the gutter.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• In winter, the snow must be shoveled; the driveway, plowed; the sidewalks, salted.
  — First National Bank Alaska, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Use a potato fork or shovel to loosen soil all around the clump, working at least 1 foot away from the main stem.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
• Then came the soil in a big pungent pile, demanding to be shoveled.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• First, shovel away any snow that's on top of the icy surface, then sprinkle small amounts of rock salt onto the ice.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• Then, turn the compost with a pitchfork or shovel at least once a week and patiently wait for the process to be complete.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• His wife picked up the prescription and a few days later, Carlson felt well enough to shovel snow.
  — Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
• Images from the scene showed crews shoveling piles of corn in an effort to finding the missing man.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
• That means freeze warnings, blizzard alerts, and waking up early to shovel out the Prius.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 20 Oct. 2022
• Combatants were slain, and squires, unsung, Came through with their spades to shovel horse dung.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• High winds and strong snowfall did not stop some from trying to shovel early.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• Kingfishers use their oversized bill to break up the soil and their thickened feet to shovel the dirt out the entrance.
  — Laura Erickson, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2020
• My new favorite shoe for disc golf, work, shoveling light now.
  — Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
• Wentz started the second quarter trying to avoid a sack and shovel a pass to Zach Pascal.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Oct. 2021
• In the winter, while other birds waded through piles of snow, Walnut would insist that Crowe shovel her a path.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024