Sentence examples for shovel from inspiring English sources

Lesser fly-on-the-wall programmes would have ladled the pathos on with a shovel but there's an unfussy, understated humanity here.

If you die in Hungary, fear not: from Wednesday the state will reportedly provide a free grave, coffin or urn – and even a free shovel for gravedigging – to poorer sections of society.

"Going to buy a shovel because we don't have one," Frost said.

There is a long gap between announcement and the first shovel in the ground.

My mother appeared with a shovel to prepare a full military burial when I noticed a twitch.

Like Hawke himself, Bond was an ocker's ocker, a man who called a spade a bloody shovel, and who paraded his earthiness at every opportunity.

Andrewsarchus – a big, prehistoric mammalian carnivore that resembled the villainous Gmork from The Neverending Story – is not a household name despite its apparent ferocity, and the shovel-tusked elephants and bear dogs of the age of mammals have not inspired a "Miocene Park" film franchise.

Alexander is also expected to provide £100m for shovel-ready housing schemes, and also set out his thinking on how government could in the long term become a commissioner for housing, an idea he floated at the Liberal Democrat conference in the autumn.

The bank's economists reckon that the crisis could push 53m more people into extreme poverty in poor countries, but some of those countries feel the bank itself could help more and will make that point loudly this weekend.For instance, many of the "shovel-ready" projects in poor countries that the bank had intended to support in future years could be brought forward to this year.

Some shovel-ready projects are already under way.

And the country bristles with shovel-carrying youths, some improving the busy roads north to China, others digging holes the size of football pitches along Vietnam's long coast, ready for shrimp farms.One country, two halvesUnemployment, and the fear of social unrest, is not unique to Vietnam.