Example Sentences

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Workers in protective suits have shoveled black sludge off beaches, and boats towed booms into place to corral two oil slicks.

From Time • May 21, 2015

Paul,nnto @ PU-I have lived my life in Minnesota so I have shoveled all that I am going to.

From Time • Jan. 6, 2013

All the plants we have watered, the fish we have fed, the snowy steps we have shoveled.

From New York Times • May 26, 2011

Further, the department must typically replow where car owners have shoveled snow back into the streets.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010

The feeling of desperation was so physically present I could have shoveled it off the dock.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys