Examples of shovel

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Few of the firms that made cable-driven shovels survived the transition.
The first hydraulic shovels held too little dirt.
Everybody got together to open the estuary with their shovels, and once it became full of saltwater, they closed it.
The clay is dug out using picks and shovels.
You would see them at the bars: wealthy white tourists treating them and the guys absolutely shovelling the food down as fast as possible.
Who actually hammered the rivets into the ships, took the pickaxe to the coal-face and shovelled out the earth to make the road?
The film strives to capture rhythmic and graphic patterns in the movements and shapes of cranes, trains, automobiles, boats, steam shovels, suspension bridges, and skyscrapers.
The 2004 summary includes the five loci discussed in the text but excludes shovel testing.
Four stimuli were eliminated from further analyses on this basis: the grass-button, fork-shovel, leaf-bug and umbrella-lamp.
The shovel scoop is attached with vines or chords to a long handle measuring the height of its user.
I mean it was a pick and a shovel, ooh, and a trip right on down the line.
One of the wooden figures holds a shovel, perhaps to dig the grave of the defunct honoree.
To accompany a prayer, cigarettes were hand- rolled hastily and lit with the toy shovel.
The negligent operation of a power shovel outside the claimant's steelwork resulted in a power cut which halted their non-stopping operation for 14 hours.
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