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Recent Examples of shovel
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
Barona Band of Mission Indians Tribal Council members joined Ramona Municipal Water District directors to shovel dirt to kick off the start of construction.
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Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2026
This can include flattening the hill, raking or shoveling the mound, or even using a garden hose to flood the area.
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Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
4 June 2026
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
Barona Band of Mission Indians Tribal Council members joined Ramona Municipal Water District directors to shovel dirt to kick off the start of construction.
—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2026
This can include flattening the hill, raking or shoveling the mound, or even using a garden hose to flood the area.
—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
4 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for shovel
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
Verb
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Senegal will really have to dig deep in order to come away with a point.
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While starter Tyler Phillips held steady for six innings, giving up five hits and two runs while striking out four, Alejandro Osuna and Elias Díaz each knocked in runs in the top of the eighth that dug the Marlins a hole their offense couldn’t come out of.
Verb
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In addition to excavating the property, investigators have seized financial records, adoption records and business records.
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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