shovel
Example Sentences
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Kids are running up and down the wet sand chasing geese, while the younger ones seat themselves in the sand, buckets and shovels in hand.
From Literature
When I was 8 years old, I was shoveling sidewalks.
From MarketWatch
Kacher: We like businesses on the infrastructure side of the software industry—those that provide the picks and shovels and have business models that monetize usage rather than seats.
From Barron's
If you invest, buy companies supplying the picks and shovels and avoid the hole in the ground.
From MarketWatch
That’s a notably poor performance for a company selling the sort of “picks and shovels” that are still in red-hot demand three years into the AI spending boom.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
