Sentence examples for shovel around from inspiring English sources

When his mentor, national treasure Phil Smethway, is killed in a mysterious hit and run, this need intensifies and Frank begins to shovel around in the past of an elderly man found dead on a park bench, who he suspects might once have been Phil's best friend.

If you clear off your car first, then snowblow, you don't have to shovel around your car later.

When Sergio demurred, the brigadier took out a shovel, walked around behind the owl, and whacked it on the head.

Even the most critical reader has to give Mr. Velasquez-Manoff credit for the prodigious task he has undertaken as he shovels around reams of data, most of which he lacks the expertise to interpret.

More recently, studies of Platybelodon molars found in China's Linxia Basin suggest they grazed rather more like the elephants we know, clamping their shovels around trees to strip off leaves and bark.

Jon Richards, the head of education at Unison, said the investigation revealed that the system was untenable: "There are huge amounts of public money being shovelled around in the schools system, and unless the EFA ups its game, plenty of unscrupulous people out there will help themselves".

In July 2013, on a patch of land an hour from Changsha's city centre, Broad Group managers stood shoulder to shoulder with local officials as earth was ceremonially shovelled around a foundation stone, bedecked in red ribbons.

Gently, the shovel head swung around again, moved in upon the driver, and tapped him on one arm.

But profundity does happen: we all think about philosophy as we're washing dishes and as we shovel the shit around and as we ring up the till in the shop".

An easy way to keep making money is thus to equip your shovel and go around hitting every rock you find until one gives you a set of bells.

Anderson comes round the wicket to Smith and he plays that trusty shovel shot around the corner and takes the single.