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
We all deserved the punishment, because the others would have shovelled down snow just as we did if they'd thought of it—only they are not so quick at thinking of things as we are.
From The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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
None but she would have shovelled that comically superfluous "all" in there.
From Christian Science by Mark Twain
