Shoveling would fill many of the holes; butshoveling required labor when we were short of labor, and time when every minute was precious.
Along the roads our negro laborers, who all seemed to be giants, kept filling in stones and shoveling in earth to mend broken places.
Now the act of shoveling was approached with the carefulness with which a scholar turns to any subtle process in his laboratory.
Yet in great establishments theshoveling of coal or of dirt may represent an economically very important factor.
Many types of mechanical shoveling and loading machines have been built for use in mines.
Inside the room Flannery, with' his coat and vest off, was shoveling guinea-pigs into bushel baskets with a coal scoop.
The furnaces were all going for the stokers were down in the hole shoveling coal, down in the hole shoveling coal, shoveling coal, and a lot of black smoke was coming out of the smoke stack.
Pile your coal up in the shape of a cone, by shoveling all the coal into the middle of the fire box, and putting as little on the sides as you possibly can.
I listened and in the meanwhile many mounds of sand urgently in need of shoveling remained undisturbed.
I suppose you've been shoveling her down hill all day?
When he entered the office he found that the men who had been shoveling the mud out of the office had finished their work and the floor was dark and sticky.
Everybody's shoveling dirt or talking about the other fellow.
The Zone point of view seems to be that no shoveling is so important, even that of digging a ditch half the ships of the world are waiting to cross, that a man should bring upon himself a premature funeral.
Rare was the land that had not sent representatives to this great dirt-shoveling congress.
I shall never forget the Reverend Pubby's pained but fascinated expression as he sat at breakfast the next morning and watched thirty hungry savages shoveling plain, unvarnished grub into their faces.
I'll teach this dirt not to muddy my shoes," said the man, shoveling madly, only soon to discover himself in a pit.
Stopes opened in this manner when partially empty are too dangerous for men to enter for shoveling out remnants.
This usually results not only in moreshoveling but in a congestion at the passes not present in overhand stoping, for with that method several chutes are available for discharging ore into the levels.
Thus not only is there less shoveling required, but fewer ore-passes and a less number of preliminary winzes are necessary, and a wider level interval is possible.
In any event, it saves the cost of ore-passes, of shoveling into them, and of the detailed distribution of the filling.
As shoveling is the most costly system of transport known, any means of stoping that decreases the need for it has merit.
The next day was a nice sunny one, and I struck out up town to try and get a job shoveling snow from the sidewalks.
After an hour's hard work I finished, and, after paying me, the lady told me to call next day and she would give me a job shoveling coal down in the cellar, as I had done an extra good job on the sidewalk.
From that time on I made a few dimes each day sawing wood or shoveling coal and therefore got along splendid.
As the well grew deeper we made a halfway shelf, on which I stood, he throwing the earth on the shelf, and I shoveling it up from that point.
I wonder now," said Jack, "what it is digging and shovelingup yonder at the top of the rock!
The arch should be 7 feet high by 5½ wide in front, with a gather on the top and sides of about 1 foot, with plank floor; and if this has a little incline it will facilitate shoveling the lime when drawn.
Two men supplying machine with large coke, and shoveling up broken, at 4s.
A man could be seen moving spectrally around and shoveling ore into a crusher set in the mill wall.
Ore feeders wereshoveling crushed ore into the stamp hoppers.
Only yesterday I rode about town in the car and had the chauffeur stop a while every place where they were shoveling snow.
The completed process left these full of white sand which a pair of peons spent several days shoveling out and carrying down into the valley.
Here and there they saw a man shoveling the sidewalk, and already teams of horses and carts were standing at the street corners while gangs of men and boys shoveled snow into them.
A big man in blue overalls and a red flannel undershirt, and wearing no overcoat, was shovelingthe snow off the roof.
The principal business was eating, sailors having a habit of shoveling in their food as fast as possible when it is placed before them.
Smith glanced uneasily at the door leading from the fire room, muttered something unintelligible to the others and began shoveling coal into his furnace.
Before the Simeon Buck North American Dry Goods Exchange, Simeon Buck himself had just finished shoveling his walk, and stood wiping his snow shovel with an end of his muffler.
As the well grew deeper we made a half-way shelf, on which I stood, he throwing the earth on the shelf, and I shoveling it up from that point.
Then we all returned to the hotel, the men going ahead and shoveling a path.
I would have preferred the digging of ditches or the shoveling of coal; but the needle alone persistently pointed out my way, and I was finally forced to take it.
After years of experience shoveling coal into a firebox and monkeying around these old grease pots, I suppose I might get an engineer's certificate.
Clearly a great deal more time would be spent and a great deal more careful analysis made in the case of an important executive, than in the case of a day laborer engaged as a member of a temporary shoveling gang.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoveling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
