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shovelful

[ UK /ʃˈʌvə‍lfə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quantity a shovel can hold

How To Use shovelful In A Sentence

  • The number of self-proclaimed experts on the internet only proves the point that one should take advice with a "shovelful" of salt. A Shovelful of Salt, Part II: Trigger Weight and Gun Safety
  • All she needed to do was dump a shovelful of dirt into the flat, pick it up and shake it over the row.
  • Where the side-hill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan. All Gold Cañon
  • You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting.
  • I add a shovelful each of sand and peatmoss to each six shovelfuls of the first mixture.
  • Joe's shovelful of dirt smacked Henri in the face at the same moment that Frank's hit Jacques. THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
  • Peter takes a shovelful of the earth and holds it out to the mourners filing past, each taking a handful and dropping it in.
  • Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan. All Gold Canon
  • Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan. All Gold Canon
  • Don't you hesitate a minute now, Mr. Knapp," said old Mrs. Hennessy heartily; "if it's no more than to put a shovelful of coal on the kitchen fire, you call 14 ring 32 and I'll be right over. Archive 2009-01-01
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