Sentence examples for as a spade from inspiring English sources
In the digging task, Kanzi made a flat oval flake which he used as a spade.
Being an experienced digger-up of burdock I went prepared with a pickaxe as well as a spade.
There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred to as a spade, so let us speak plainly.
Sitting on the restaurant's patio eating chicken with her boyfriend, she "watched my papi's back through the window and tried to will myself into thinking of him as just any old man with a skinny hunch and a chin pointy as a spade and graying hair".
The deputy director of Pawnee, Indiana's parks department, she's the sort of ambitious can-do apparatchik who calls a spade a spade, then organises a photo session with the nearest spade, then, warming to the theme, proposes the founding of Spade Day, for which she will, inevitably, dress as a spade.
But while the harsh language of terror risks entrench the position of the indigenous movement, those in land disputes with Mapuche communities are happy to call what they see as a spade a spade.
Cue a fish-out-of-water comedy-of-errors, subtle-as-a-spade digs about how corrupt Hollywood can be, and LeBlanc getting in on the joke that actors can be narcissistic creeps.
The heart ace, tried in another match, was due to give away a crucial trick, as was a spade.
The Omnivore and the promoters of the Hatchet Job of the Year award, sponsored by the Fish Society, are inviting the literary world to "contemplate the future of book reviewing" with a snippet from Henry James's review of Our Mutual Friend in which he describes this great novel as "the poorest of Mr Dickens's works… dug out as with a spade and pickaxe".
If West then shifts to a spade, as good as anything, South wins and plays his diamond honors, forcing East to hold up.
But while the harsh language of terror risks entrenching the position of the indigenous movement, those in land disputes with Mapuche communities are happy to call what they see as spade, a spade.
