It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin.
The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave.
He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of it.
Shovelful after shovelful of sand they tossed aside, until their arms ached, but they would not stop.
It will be the removal of a shovelful of gravel from a large pile.
One shovelful appears to make no difference, but in the end the pile of gravel disappears.
Take that," shouted Bill, throwing a shovelful of manure into the tent of his aggressor.
The first trouble arose through a pioneer of the Kangaroos dropping a shovelful of dirt in the lines of the Melbourne men.
The process is simply this:--A shovelful of earth is taken from the heap and washed in the basins (a shovelful to each) circling the pit.
The first shovelful of earth thrown up was absolutely full of glittering particles of gold, and the second was even more richly impregnated with the precious metal.
In the meadow where we planted honey locust, and on a rocky knoll with oaks, the first year we applied a shovelful of night soil and a light mulch of leaf compost.
After planting one shovelful of night soil, or two or three shovelfuls of cured slaughter house tankage, were applied to each tree.
Freddie was delighted to do this, and was soon tossing up on the slanting boards shovelful after shovelful of snow.
He never, I think, put in a shovelful of cement except in the place where it belongs, as a mortar for good walls, and never will do so as long as he lives.
I see a man shovelling snow from his barn doors; as each shovelful rises and scatters, the sun catches it for an instant and it falls, a silvery shower.
About noon, just as we were thinking rather dispiritedly of knocking off work for a lunch--which in our early morning eagerness we had forgotten to bring--Johnny turned up a shovelful whose lower third consisted of the pulverized bluish clay.
One day, as I was in the very act of turning my shovelful of dirt into the cradle, my eye caught a dull gleam.
Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
It's just booful, the way it peters out," he exulted when a shovelfulof dirt contained no more than a single speck of gold.
I had thrown all but the last shovelful in when Cumshaw drew something from his pocket, looked at it a moment, and then, with a muttered exclamation, threw it into the hole and trod it deep into the earth.
I could hear Moira's quick breaths come and go as I worked, and with each shovelful of soil I turned Cumshaw craned his head a little further forward.
It was not of a barrowful of bricks and shovelful of mortar that he had been dreaming, but of lancet windows and stone mouldings; of polished oak rafters within, and of high gables and red tiles without.
If it was in bad repair, Davis should see to it; a man with a barrowful of bricks and a shovelful of mortar should be sent down.
Both men resumed their labor, shovelful after shovelful of dirt was thrown up on top of the mound already formed, until they stood upon the cover of the box.
Brace thrust them down under the water, and Briscoe placed a shovelful of gravelly sand in one, balancing it so that it was level on the bottom of the bowl.
Another shovelfulof gravelly sand was raised and placed in the second bowl.
He stood, stripped to shirt and trousers, in about a foot of water, and because he had not learned the trick of pitching out the soil, part of every shovelful fell back upon him.
The wind blew hard and the wash was dry, so I lifted shovelful after shovelful of the latter as high as I could and let it trickle slowly down.
Hardly had the second shovelful been added before an extraordinary movement amongst the dirt took place, and the police started back in wonder and alarm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shovelful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
