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Sentence Examples She is very well mannered in conditions that would give fits to the helmsmen of modem boats with high aspect fin keels and spade rudders. Any journalist worth his name should have at some point or the other done his share of spade work to get that coveted junket. And the president should not be criticized for being a straight shooter and calling a spade a spade. She has people rooting for her in this country simply because she calls a spade a spade. A source described him as extremely straightforward, somebody who calls a spade a spade and has no hidden agenda. Finally a report that calls a spade a spade on the country's dangerous love affair with the demon drink. After a while, we started to talk and I began to like him, because he's funny and he's straightforward and he calls a spade a spade. The following Saturday I arrived alone, armed with a pickaxe, spade and a selection pack of buffet pork pies. The trump maker leads a spade which player A wins with the ace, becoming the first partner. In no trump bids, the two of spades resumes its normal function as a spade. It dates from circa 1780, with butterfly shaped top and satinwood crossbanding, fitted with a drawer, on tapering square legs with spade feet. Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks. The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick. Between equal ranked pairs, the pair containing the spade is higher, irrespective of the suit of the other card. Also, because he knows that player two's card is already a spade, he turns over all the cards that aren't spades as well. He dropped a spade on the first card and looked at her as she tossed another on top of his. Heppelwhite's favorite leg was square, and he made use frequently of the spade foot. The virtue of the spade for you and me is that it reacquaints us with resistance from the material world. Prepare a site for wildflowers by working the soil using a spade, rototiller or plow. He considered a crossruff, but there was a considerable danger that East would be able to score an overruff with the spade nine. Show More Sentences There is a kinesthetic awareness of one's body and bodily movement in one's conscious action of picking up the spade. I could say that the ground was soft enough to be excavated to an even greater depth using a spade only. Inside one of the rural farm's outbuildings, steam pours from a large metal vat and a man stirs a huge pot of brewing barley with a large spade. The Irish spade also performs beautifully in tight spaces or in heavy clay or rocky soils. The head of a Dutch hoe is fixed straight like a spade, a draw hoe head points back towards you. This could be when you are void in the suit led or to a spade trick when the Ace or King of Spades has already been played. They give your child a Playstation when you bought theirs a plastic bucket and spade. He was butted in the face and grabbed a hammer to protect himself as the thugs armed themselves with a spade and a knife. After crops are harvested, spade several inches of manure into vegetable beds and sow a cover crop of white Dutch clover. Drivers unable to cancel their trip were told to load their vehicles with warm clothes, food, water, boots, de-icer, a torch and spade. It includes meticulously gauged fluting across the apron and down the legs, terminating in swelled spade feet. Visitors to Manchester's twin city in the near future might find it worth packing deckchairs, sun cream and a bucket and spade. If a spade is turned it is put back in the middle of the talon and the next card is turned up for trumps. The concrete must be tamped or rammed down into its bed with a spade or rod. The short length of thin fuse wire is visible between the two spade connectors through the fuse body. And in a world where we no longer call a spade a spade but a multi-purpose topsoil cultivator, we need characters not cardboard cut-outs. For small areas or around plants, working the lime into the soil with a spade or cultivator is preferable. The harp form raised on a slender knopped standard and tripod cabriole legs ending in spade feet. Each tapering leg is headed by an inlaid diamond-shaped panel of purpleheart, and also inlaid with boxwood, terminating in spade feet. We tend to use the same few tools spade, fork, rake, trowel, secateurs and watering can throughout our gardening careers. Show More Sentences So you'll be out in the garden with a spade for the rest of the day, working up a fine tilth, or whatever? This is the spade work done by Gwen and the writer, and the later promotion are only birds of passage. A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life. Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners. We will find work for you all, and please if you can bring a spade or shovel, brush or knife to work with. She is very well mannered in conditions that would give fits to the helmsmen of modern boats with high aspect fin keels and spade rudders. The legs have matching graduated bellflowers and stringing and the spade feet are cut out from a solid leg blank. The ground was still soft, it was only October, and in no time I had a hole a spade by a spade and a half wide, and maybe two feet deep. She took the garden spade she'd nabbed from her garage and started to dig a small circle in front of the tombstone. This set was hand made with spade feet and wheat carved open pierced carved backs. The fold-over tops conceal a playing surface and guinea wells, raised on square tapering legs and spade feet. This is a delicate Federal-era design with gracefully tapered, curved legs ending in fine spade feet. A double combination is one that contains two copies of each card and a double pinochle is two spade queens and two diamond jacks. They also are being advised to carry warm clothes, food, water, boots, a torch and a spade. He said they left behind tools they had used to damage the trees including a saw, a spade and a fork. He merely turned over huge clods of earth with one twist of a big spade and left them there, weeds still intact. What may be a surprise is that the bottom of your foot hurts, bruised from stepping on the hard metal of the spade or fork repeatedly. Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears. Others are harder to deal with and have to be cut with a knife or the sharp edge of a spade if the clump is big. He prefers the Irish spade, with its longer, narrower blade, to English and American models. Show More Sentences Your next step is drilling the latch hole on the edge of the door, using the specified spade bit. To drill counter-mounted faucet holes, use an electric drill and an appropriately sized hole saw or spade bit. To drill the latch hole on the edge of the door, use the spade bit specified by the manufacturer. The guns are actuated by a three-way switch on the spade grip of the stick. A set of standard mackerel feathers, often tied using spade end commercial haddock hooks, are ideal. All of the hooks I have seen show a simple round bend design with either an open eye or a spade end and have been made from iron. This leaves the unsupported spade rudder quite vulnerable to damage should it be grounded even in a soft bottom. Use a sharp spade bit to bore a 1-inch diameter hole through each end of every floorboard you have to replace. Player 3 is allowed to play the club even though he has a spade. For young children, an old dessert spoon and ladle double as a trowel and spade, while a washing-up liquid bottle with extra holes can become a watering can. Perhaps he has matured amazingly since telling the media he would call a spade a spade, and, if necessary, whack his opponents over the head with it. I now really need a lawnmower, some round up, a spade and fertiliser. South could have survived by ruffing with dummy's spade six and running the spade jack, but he extravagantly ruffed with dummy's jack, then played a spade to his queen. South ruffs a diamond in his hand, he takes the ace of clubs, ruffs a diamond, and leads the king and jack of clubs, pitching a spade from dummy when West covers. Other useful attachments include hole saw blades, spade bits, buffing disks and depth stops, screw driving bits, sanding disks, or even a power grinder. After discovering he had been clamped for not displaying a tax disc, the motorist snatched a spade from his van, smashed its windscreen and rear windows and slashed the tyres. Drilling can be done with many of the same tools you use for drilling wood or metal, including twist drills, brad point drill bits, spade bits or a hole saw with a pilot bit. But there are four other published spade stories out there, and it would be nice to have them between covers in one volume. Atlantic spade fishes and black durgons patrol over the reef. If the first card is not a spade, then player 3 then plays a card. Show More Sentences For a start, get a good spade, with a long enough handle for your height. Try to remove some of the material first with a spade bit or drill bit. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. For example, if you expose the queen of spades, then the first time that someone leads a spade you are not allowed to play the queen if you have other spades. Consequently, when a player claims his seventh card, he should do this by putting it face up on top of the first six cards claimed, and it must be a spade. The front legs are squared and tapered ending in spade feet. Hepplewhite introduced the tapering, square leg often tapered on the inside faces only usually ending in the spade foot, which added a needed look of strength. Also seen was an early Nineteenth Century, New England birch tilt-top candlestand in red wash with spider legs, spade feet and forged nail construction. Winter weeds are wimps, so you can weed with a hoe instead of a spade. Barker is often perceived as a rather chilly writer, but here he laughs at the absurdity of humanity that dares to hope even as it digs its own grave with a spade. He emitted a pained hiss through a mouthful of blood, the type of noise a poisonous snake would make after being cloven in half by a farmer's spade. Aside from the spuds that were impaled on my spade after almost every thrust into the earth, these are on the menu for tonight along with roast butternut squash. Weapons recovered include a pickaxe, a handaxe, two hammers, a spade, eight baseball bats, a cricket bat, six long-blade knives and an assortment of small knives. All they can expect is a watery existence, likely at any moment to be rudely interrupted by a man with a spade, followed by conveyance to a very hot place. He broke every rule of political correctitude that they had striven to impose on a nation with an international reputation for calling a spade a shovel. Let's finally take the gloves off here and start calling a spade a spade. Also use a spade anytime you want to dig a straight-sided hole. Here you can learn about card passing technique, spade and heart suit management, how to make and defend against slams, strip plays and advanced endplays. When you won the spade king, you were endplayed in three suits. He would have gone down had he played for the drop of the spade queen. Show More Sentences Get a spade well underneath the rootball and lift it carefully on to the polythene. Recessed at the speaker's base are two gold-plated five-way binding posts that can accommodate bare wire, spade lugs, or banana plugs. East doubled to show exactly four spades, a bid of one spade would show five spades, and when South passed West had a difficult choice of rebids. The administration refused to budge on calling a spade a spade. A forepack carried over the saddlebags contained a gas mask, hand spade, food bag, field flask and cooking utensils. After vegetables are harvested, spade several inches of manure into beds and sow seeds of hairy vetch, white Dutch clover, or winter rye. Those declarers that went down won the spade and immediately finessed in diamonds. The long square tapering legs carry fretwork corner brackets terminating in spade feet and it is 21in wide. But in these less shockable times we are more likely to call a spade a spade. First was his straight tapered leg, sometimes with a spade foot, at other times tipped in brass. And armed with a bucket and spade, Grace Morgan, two, was an enthusiastic sandcastle maker. South now ruffed a club winner in dummy, cashed the top diamond pitching his losing spade, ruffed a spade and ruffed another club winner. If it wins you are home, if it loses you are also home as South is endplayed to lead into dummy's diamond or spade tenace. Currently, it is cleaned by spade and barrow onshore, and it can be collected by raking boats offshore. And now my Lady Worm's, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade. The spade plough is designed to cut the soil and turn it on its side, minimising the damage to the earthworms, soil microorganism, and fungi. After North opened one spade, South responded one no-trump, semiforcing. He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave. South opens one club, North responds one heart and South rebids one spade. There also is the potential to disturb or destroy specific sites used by such species as the western diamond back rattlesnake, spade foot toad, and the desert tortoise. Show More Sentences It can be blowing a gale or as dull as ditchwater and my daughter Cerys wouldn't bat an eyelid with bucket and spade in hand and sand between her toes. It can be blowing a gale or as dull as ditchwater and my daughter Cerys wouldn't bat an eyelid, with bucket and spade in hand and sand between her toes. Maybe God just calls a spade a spade, when the president talks to God. As declarer had bid spades as well as hearts in the auction West was reluctant to discard a spade and threw the jack of clubs, knowing that partner held the king. Arpeggio guest seating, having tapered legs and spade feet shapes, can accommodate itself to contemporary, transitional or traditional office designs. It s not like we re talking about child care being provided to support working parents or to educate our kids let s call a spade a spade this is rorting of taxpayer dollars. I thought I'd draw another spade, but I ended up with a busted flush. Examples from Classical Literature The earth should be drawn up to celery with a hoe preparatory to earthing up with a spade. But as honey-bee made hers very badly, George struck her fingers with his spade. Throwing the earth up on either side, he had digged to a depth of about two feet, when his spade encountered a coffin. She called a spade a spade, and liked frankness and no under meaning to things. A man the day before was digging a funk hole, and coming on something soft he plunged his spade into it. The spade and plough of the husbandman are constantly disinterring relics of high value to the antiquary and numismatist. He began to pace wildly to and fro, he shouldered his spade, he gesticulated with his other arm. Then, dropping the halberd, he seized a spade and began the first embankment. Here, professor, throw off that coat and nglig manner, and grasp this spade. The vanning spade and shallow washing dish are the prototypes of this kind of ore-dressing machinery. This style spade was invented around 1895 and was widely used for digging trenches for drain tiles on sticky or mucky soil. The monks were at the hoe or the spade, and some milking the kye, and some at the fishing. Giving some directions to his companions, he took a spade and started with lan. In order to cut snow, neve or ice to pile on the flounce, a pick and spade had to be included in the sledging equip meet. Lomax drove his spade down into the ground and left it standing in the bed. These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people that call a spade a spade. Some particles of gravel trickled from the end of the spade, and even what was on it was of two colours and two consistencies. It should then be lined out to the required size of the bricks, and be cut with a sharp spade or turfing iron. The tools needed are a sharp ax, a crosscut saw, an inch auger, and a spade. The Prince took the spade and began to dig, though not very hopefully. Show More Sentences That lump of Meccano with its bucket and spade that's just landed on the old James Bond Moonraker set. One day when I rode over to the Shimerdas' I found Antonia starting off on foot for Russian Peter's house, to borrow a spade Ambrosch needed. Presently an old man with a spade over his shoulder walked through the door leading from the second garden. The infantryman plies a spade a week for every hour that he pumps a rifle. Soon the spade, the plough, and the axe began their subduing work. I took a long piece of string from my pocket, and she lifted his head with the spade while I tied a noose around it. Into the jungles of Luzon will go the saw and spade and spelling book. Then he absolutely refused to put his hand to a spade or a trowel. They got a spade at the crib and dug out the body, and you never see such an excitement. Brown threw up his bothered brow and rapped on the spade handle with an intolerance quite unusual with him. When a man struck some new thing with his spade, he called out. I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops. She always calls 'a spade a spade, and branson's Essence of Coffee,' etc. Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground. With a spade I turned up the black ground while she ran about laughing and pretending to be afraid of the worms I uncovered. As for you, Benjamin Gunn,' says they, 'here's a musket,' they says, 'and a spade, and pick-axe. These have as yet been untouched by the spade of the excavator. And that man intends to put a girdling ditch round the whole in the course of forty months, and so redeem it by the magic of his spade. A short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun. He always seemed to be leaning on his spade, always gazing out seawards in the same intent, fascinated way. Show More Sentences He stood up and rested one hobnailed boot on the top of his spade while he looked her over. The start was made with only a dozen Kru boys, Trent himself, stripped to the shirt, labouring amongst them spade in hand. The shoulder blade of a walrus fastened to a ski served as spade. It was Brother Paul coming up with a spade to shovel away the snow. Him de syfe and de spade what Massa Will sis pon my buying for him in de town, and de debbils own lot of money I had to gib for em. He hefted the spade and brought it down smartly on the object. Then lift each plant with a spade or mattock slowly and skillfully. Texas, as somber as a spade flush, draws Boggs into a corner. It always kind of gives me a thrill to see them ugly white grubs that spade up in the cucumber beds. There are no Pomona and vertumnus but the gardener's spade and hoe. Where are the digger and the spade, this peaceful night, destined to add the last great secret to the many secrets of the Tulkinghorn existence? Then they dragged him out-of-doors, taking a spade and hoe with them. He put a hand as big as a spade into the net and pulled out a handful of mullets. Let them discriminate between what they remember and what they dreamed, call a spade a spade, give us facts, and honor their own senses with trust. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. As he spoke he came in among them for shelter, and propped his spade against the wall of the chalet, kicking the soil from his hobnailed blucher boots, which were new. He leaned over his spade and smiled benignly at his visitor. The picture, in Carroll's trademark violet ink, shows Edith in a beach costume holding a bucket and spade and leaning against the wheel of a Victorian bathing machine. We were in a fish restaurant in Cromer last week and two children on the next table were served their fish and chips in a plastic bucket with a spade in it. He noticed this, and thrust at an inner door with the end of his spade, intimating by an inarticulate sound that there was the place where I must go, if I changed my locality. Show More Sentences When Fitzgerald illustrates the vapidity and ultimate nihilism of the American dream in The Great Gatsby he is really just calling a spade a spade. There goes a man to the sea-shore, with a spade and a bucket, to dig a mess of clams, which were a principal article of food with the first settlers. I know it, for now and then, I hear a far-away muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some ruthless villainy. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of spade? Words that rhyme with spade What is the past tense of spade? What is the plural of spade? What is the adverb for spade? What is the adjective for spade? What is the noun for spade? Translations for spade Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words SPAD spad spacy spackling spackle spaciousness Spade spaded spadefish spadefoot spadeful spadefuls 5-letter Words Starting With s sp spa spad