Example Sentences

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He said residents had shovelled the stones and gravel to make barriers along with the sandbags to protect their homes.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

When LPs became obsolete he had shovelled his stock into the huge space.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2014

Banks had shovelled money towards people who could ill-afford to buy their own homes.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2012

Sean, next door, had shovelled the snow from their garden path, twice.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2010

Here was the giant laborer that had shovelled the rich loam upon the delta of Lower Egypt!

From In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir