Use "shovelful" in a sentence
shovelful example sentences
shovelful
1. All the Arrows watched as shovelful after shovelful of dirt was poured over the grave
2. shovelful of chestnuts on the fire
3. The village leader cast a shovelful of earth into the grave
4. “Couldn’t keep quiet, could ye?” He heaved a shovelful of dirt over his shoulder
5. He was in a clearing with muddy grass and picnic tables and a parking lot with vehicles, humans going in and out of a building that smelled like a shovelful of
6. She looked down at the open grave and watched the last shovelful of dirt cover the pine box
7. Then we want some more coal; there's only about a shovelful left, and -'
8. "And now," said Joe, "you ain't that strong yet, old chap, that you can take in more nor one additional shovelful to-day
9. With every shovelful of dirt, he’d had a memory of Penny – running through the grass or nipping at a butterfly – and he wanted to spare Felix that
10. He pushed his shovel through the earth at the feet of the shroud and lifted a shovelful
11. I scooped out a shovelful of ash
12. It was done; I stirred up the ashes, and interred them under a shovelful of coals; and she mutely, and with a sense of intense injury, retired to her private apartment
13. It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin
14. A third shovelful of earth fell
15. And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin
16. And he threw in a second shovelful
17. He flung in a third shovelful
18. He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of it
19. The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave
20. “And it is not only these, my dear Tylla, but the entire civilization into which we have been dropped like a shovelful of seeds into a large concrete mixer