Sentence example with the word 'spadeful'

spadeful

Definition n. the quantity a shovel can hold

Last update: November 2, 2015


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We used three spadefuls to fill each pit.   [Please select]

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Then one May morning, when the men were digging in the clay, a workman lifted off his spadeful of dirt, and white marble gleamed out.   [Please select]

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Now each man looked over every spadeful of earth himself, as he dug it up.   [Please select]

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It is contempt that casts the first spadeful in the grave of love.   [Please select]

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Schliemann and his wife had fingered over every spadeful of dirt.   [Please select]

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I ran to the spot where the hole had been made, and, having swept aside the gardener's spadeful of soil, found the deeper part of the hole, running slanting underground, still open.   [Please select]

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Meanwhile the sultan was in his palace waiting till the fortieth day should dawn, and wondering that not one spadeful of earth should have been dug out of the hill.   [Please select]

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