Sentence examples for shoveling from inspiring English sources

This solution has the virtue of forcing the lenders from northern Europe to take their lumps for having been so imprudent in shoveling money to the south, while also breaking the link between troubled banks and government indebtedness that has been so ruinous in Spain and Ireland.

When it comes to shoveling truly humungous quantities of data from one device to another, hard-wired connections, surprisingly, can run out of capacity long before airwaves.

My colleague uses the example of two people sharing the duties of shoveling snow off a walk, where the stronger one's fair share may be larger than the weaker one's.

He served a long list of prominent firms ending with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; while at Bethlehem, he developed high-speed steel and performed notable experiments in shoveling and pig-iron handling.

They are extremely energetic, feeding almost continuously while in the water, shoveling through streambed debris with their flat bills as they hunt for larval insects and freshwater crustaceans (a favourite food).

But shoveling snow tends to be a "goal-oriented" activity.

Everyone is shoveling to try to get the bodies out.

One of the four people was killed in a traffic accident and the three others died after suffering heart problems, two of whom were believed to have been shoveling heavy snow at the time.

His widow, Nicole Alston, said her husband had collapsed on Saturday afternoon outside their home in the tiny town of Magnolia after shoveling snow for an hour.

Fourteen people were killed in weather-related car crashes, four while shoveling snow, two died of hypothermia and one died when he became trapped in his running car by a snow plough.

According to a 1999 Surgeon General's report, 15 minutes of shoveling snow qualifies as a moderate amount of physical activity, on par with bicycling five miles, raking leaves for half an hour or swimming laps for 20 minutes.