Sentence examples for handle a spade from inspiring English sources
By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Contrasting his own metaphorical digging with a pen to the literal digging done by his father, Seamus Heaney comes over a little embarrassed: "By God, the old man could handle a spade".
By God, the old man could handle a spade Just like his old man.
The wood of the walls was the silvery color of ash and polished like the handle of a spade.
He risked punishment by spending evenings in the Gobi in a disused shed, perched on the handle of a spade, reading by kerosene lamplight.
The commercial is being created for Warby Parker by Partners & Spade in New York, which handles a variety of brand communication tasks for the company.
On one occasion, Winter's brother hit a guard over the head with a spade handle when he tried to rape a woman from his block; incredibly, he wasn't executed.
After that, though, declarer handled the play nicely, ruffing a spade in the dummy and finessing in trumps through East.
Everyone calls a spade a spade.
