shovel
noun
an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
have shovelled
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present perfectof shovel.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The moves in yields have shovelled pressure on currencies offering low returns.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2023
The corners were just full of rolls of dust—you could have shovelled it out.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Only for my dream I would surely have shovelled the sand thoughtlessly outside where someone might have made the discovery to my own loss.
From The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
In civil life he would have shovelled the broken coal into a "hutch," and "hurled" it away to the shaft.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
The editor seems to have become gradually helpless before the mass of material that heaped itself about him, and to have shovelled from sheer despair of selection.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell
