Sentences with word «shovelful»

I don't believe that your (valid) argument about distribution of temperature fields does more than throw a couple of shovelfuls of earth into the conceptual hole.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Scripps Research President Richard A. Lerner, the Palm Beach County Commissioners, and Marshall Criser, head of the state's Scripps Florida Funding Corporation, gathered at the former orange grove known as Mecca Farms, now part of the Palm Beach County Research Village, at noon on Friday, September 23 to turn over the first shovelful of soil.

Most scholars believe that Peter's threefold profession of his love for Jesus parallels his threefold denial, that Jesus is giving Peter the chance to fill the hole he has dug for himself with three huge shovelfuls of love.

Hold your scrambled eggs close to your chest with shovelfuls of earthworms.

One shovelful yielded material later determined to be ancient wheat, prompting Pumpelly to declare that Central Asian oases were the original source of domesticated grain.

«You turn a few shovelfuls over and the fresh white snow will replace the dirty snow on top.»

With a groan, he hefted one final shovelful.

Now that the first shovelful of earth has been moved, crews will begin excavating more than 870,000 tons of rock to create the huge underground caverns for the DUNE detector.

Picking Nicholas was the last shovelful of dirt going onto the grave.

Try to build any sort of nuclear power plant in the US and be prepared to spend billions for permits before the first shovelful of earth is moved.

So I was at first puzzled when I reached into my file, untouched since the first day of Lent last year, and found that I had scribbled the following: «On Ash Wednesday, the minister who just had to be different slung a shovelful of palm ash at his horrified congregation.

He strides across the practice field that sits between Concord's gym and game field, scoops a shovelful of dirt and fills a divot about 10 feet away.

Wright wondered what else he might find in a shovelful of dirt.

«I insisted that every shovelful contained a story if it could be interpreted.»

Every shovelful was an agony?

This time around, though, the magazine served up bullshit by the shovelful, swallowed in one gulp the misinformation churned out by ABC, The Wildlife Society, and other TNR opponents, and... well, told it like it isn't.

It has a parallel in earthworks from those years as well, without having to move as much as a shovelful of earth.

You can do this by adding a shovelful or two of soil to the bottom of the bin or, better still, get some home compost from a nice mature bin.

They give you two choices: Buy their special starter or throw a shovelful of soil in the tank.

Not only because it signals (again) that the world's largest emitter may be starting to tackle global warming (and conventional air pollution), but because it tosses another shovelful of dirt on a longtime U.S. excuse for inaction.

Then as he flung each shovelful of waste over the bodies, a black cloud of fat flesh flies would rise into the air.