shovelful

I always toss those off after the first shovelful of soil.

Each shovelful mixed with the blood rush in my head.

Each one present threw three shovelfuls of earth into the grave.

She screamed again and then another shovelful of dirt hit her.

But after a few more shovelfuls, David took the risk of resuming talking.

He lifted shovelfuls of the soft earth, and the others watched.

After perhaps another five or six shovelfuls, he stopped.

Her forearm and body strain under the weight of a shovelful.

I sent down a quick four shovelfuls of loose earth into the opening.

But the good times are pitched at you as if fun could only be delivered by the shovelful.

I dug into the dirt again and threw in another shovelful.

Every other sentence or so the boy would throw out a shovelful of dirt, just to keep his hand in.

They place a shovelful of manure in the pits, then wait for rain.

At the end, the stage is dark, a shovelful of dirt falls down from a cliff.

"Give it a rest, Professor," he said, giving the older man a shovelful of attitude.

A few more shovelfuls of dirt were enough to make a small ledge at waist level.

Then I got a big shovelful of dirt and dumped it in the tub.

I watched them toss the first shovelful of dirt into the grave.

Canada thistle, for some reason, comes up every time I turn over a shovelful of soil.

She lifted another shovelful to head height and flung it over the edge.

The chief's voice was like a shovelful of pebbles dropped on tin.

It has been piece-by-tiny-piece work, time travel by the shovelful.

It was our shovelful of hot coals for the brazier.

The men above were hurling shovelfuls of magazines into the dusty air.

Clay appeared at the barn door, a shovelful of manure in his hands.