Example Sentences

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The moves in yields have shovelled pressure on currencies offering low returns.

From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2023

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 Hay, Ian

I told you, Dan, that you should have shovelled the snow away from the front door this morning.

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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 Lowell, James Russell

None but she would have shovelled that comically superfluous "all" in there.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark