Example Sentences

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I was spading up a place for a garden in front of The Dump, and I’m not lying, this was hard work, since no one had spaded up this ground since forever.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

My goodness, to think this time last spring Hiram was spading up the potato patch!

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Warner, Anne

Meanwhile, out under the trees, the gardener was spading turf, the lawn-mower was purring briskly and as though no sentence of death had been passed upon the master of the place.

From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin

Their shrill voices aroused Neale O'Neil where he was spading up a piece of Mr. Con Murphy's garden for a planting of winter spinach.

From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

It came from one of the relief party who had clambered into the cavern and was spading there in the loose soil.

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir