How to Use shoveler in a Sentence

shoveler

noun

• As the first shift of volunteers trudged back to their cars, a fresh wave of eager shovelers filed in past them.
  — Jalen Wright, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Durable instrument that improves the shoveler’s posture and reduces the need to bend and strain the body.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
• In the event those steps don't work, human snow shovelers can be lifted into position to do the work.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
• By this time, the winds were falling, down to around 30 miles per hour sustained, but gusts will still burst snow into a walker’s -- or young snow shoveler’s -- face.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• No duck may be less coveted by hunters than the northern shoveler, but none of us would pass on this spoonbill/wigeon hybrid.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• In Pittsfield, observers saw a great egret, a northern shoveler, and an osprey at Lake Pontoosuc.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• The pintails, widgeon and shovelers have departed south, but mallards, scoters and a few teal are still hanging in there.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• Volunteers worked overnight, and as of Monday morning, the franchise was still calling for shovelers to help prepare the stadium for the game.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
• Guide Caleb Harp reported good shoots for pintails, teal and shovelers near El Campo.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• The rise of the automobile, to cite the obvious example, did indeed put most manure shovelers out of work.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• The cranes, which share the area with cinnamon teals, northern shovelers and other birds, came in, wave after impressive wave, until thousands were milling around on the banks.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• Constitution Gardens draws more birds and thus more birders, there to see such species as northern shovelers, gadwalls and grebes.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Examples of birds to look for at the preserve: A variety of ducks including northern shoveler, green-winged teal and mallard.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2022
• The team relied on shovelers to help dig out snow before Monday’s playoff victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
  — Ali Gostanian, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The team relied on shovelers to help dig out before Monday’s playoff victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Fifty-five power magnification revealed a swarm of gadwalls, teal, and shovelers, thick as piss ants on a cookie.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 17 Dec. 2019
• Other waterfowl, such as the American coot and the northern shoveler, are even more numerous.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2022
• New arrivals included one rusty blackbird, two snowy egrets, and 18 northern shovelers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• From the other side of the room, northern pintails and shovelers began curiously stepping around the ropes separating the habitat from the walkway and waddled along the pedestrian path to check out the food.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• Birders will wear out their binoculars scanning for the dozens of species found at the park including meadowlark, summer tanager, northern shoveler and wood duck.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• Northern shovelers, called spoonbills by most Louisiana anglers, were the only other species to improve from last year's numbers.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• All shovelers will have to submit to metal detectors upon entry on Sunday morning, and, in order to expedite the process, no bags, purses or backpacks will be permitted.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2020
• Whereas black-bellies are primarily grazers, the fulvous whistling ducks often filter feed—similar to northern shovelers—by using their sensitive bills as strainers in their quest for small seeds.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024
• Species observed this year included common goldeneye, hooded and common merganser, green-winged teal, ruddy duck, pintail, hooded merganser, common merganser and northern shoveler.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2017
• Additional sightings included Northern shovelers, blackpoll warblers and black-and-white warblers lingering on the island.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024