Sentence examples for spade cut from inspiring English sources

"SEE that spade cut?" says David Reay, pointing with his archaeologist's trowel at the clay bank of a beach in Deerness, on the main island of the Orkney archipelago.

Use a spade to cut a trench around the ant colony.

Begin by using a spade to cut a 6-8" radius trench around the entrance of the ant hill.

Lift back the pond liner and use a spade to cut a 6-inch (16 cm) slit into the earth around the entire pond.

It gives a fifth point if it extends a 4 card flush to a 5 card flush, but 3 spades and a heart don't score flush points if you cut a spade.

Peat may be cut by spade in the form of blocks, which are spread out to dry.

(J Crew features heavily, again, although the similarly upbeat, clean cut Kate Spade gets a look in).

Drill a hole in the center of the circle with a spade bit, and then cut around the circle with a reciprocating saw.

Convinced by all of this that West still had the ♣Q, East switched to his spade in an effort to cut declarer off from dummy's second spade winner before East's trump could be drawn.

Anticipating this, Cheek made a textbook play — at Trick 2 he led a spade from the dummy to cut the defenders' communication in the suit before West was in a position to get the club ruff.

A narrow-bladed, sharp-edged spade (or a machete) will cut the roots cleanly and a number of seedlings can be carried in each hand (taking care not to dislocate the connection with the haustorium by rough handling) and they should be planted with the minimum of delay (or kept in cool, moist shade if delay is unavoidable).