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Just fill up a wheelbarrow with compost and shovel 3 to 4 shovelfuls of compost into small piles dotted across your lawn.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
More:How to shovel snow without causing injury: Visual guide
How much does snow weigh?
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
The Minnesota native shoveled a lovely goal off a rebound late in Colorado’s 5-1 tire-ironing of New Jersey on Wednesday.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
And Spencer is still halfway around the world, shoveling coal on a merchant ship.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
More:How to shovel snow without causing injury: Visual guide
How much does snow weigh?
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
The Minnesota native shoveled a lovely goal off a rebound late in Colorado’s 5-1 tire-ironing of New Jersey on Wednesday.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
And Spencer is still halfway around the world, shoveling coal on a merchant ship.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shovel
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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