Example Sentences

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Well-rotted manure being the best all-around fertilizer, we will say that we have spaded that into the seed bed after the trenching operation is over.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

Ethel and Dee had good lawns at home which their mothers were not willing to have spaded up, but they gave consent to the girls putting crocus bulbs here and there over the lawns.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy