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Recent Examples of spadeUse a spading fork to dig tubers on a sunny day when the soil is dry.—Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for spade
Over the years, players, including Durham, sometimes gave Wickers money to supplement his income from washing windows, shoveling snow and other odd jobs.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
There’s also evidence that the ship’s engineers left the boilers on, shoveling coal into the furnaces to keep electricity running.
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Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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