Example Sentences

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The 47-year-old from the Bronx has shoveled $50,000 — his entire savings — into the market.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

AOL has shoveled roughly $160 million into the network of more than 800 neighborhood-oriented websites dedicated to local news, many of which are less than a year old.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2011

Faced with unmistakable signs of recession, the Administration in the past months has shoveled funds into mort gages and freed money to speed federal construction programs.

From Time Magazine Archive