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56 examples of Spade in a sentence

He said, "It could be a club or a spade," and my answer was ... Audience member 2: Spade.
It was a spade.
He said, "It could be a high spade or a low spade."
And my answer was ... Audience member 2: A high spade.
It was a high spade.
Since it's a high spade, it could be a nine, a 10, a jack, king, queen or the ace of spades.
However, when a film is crassly made of spare parts from other films that weren't that good to begin with, and it is slow as molasses with no real payoff, I think it's fair to call a spade a spade.
Mr. spade reminds me of Dan Akyroid while Chris Farley reminds me of John Belushi.
But other than that - well, to call a spade a spade - it sucks bigtime.
I hope this show succeeds since Comedy Central didn't let David spade keep his show.
We should be intellectually honest and call a spade a spade.
One wonders how many people have to die before Mélenchon calls a spade a spade, and acknowledges that Maduro’s security forces are no different from those that sowed terror in Chile and Argentina not too long ago.
Specifically, we must call a spade a spade.
But countries are committed by international law and basic morality to call a spade a spade and grant Venezuelans refugee status.
They must be willing to call a spade a spade – or, in this case, to call the EU an intergovernmental organization in transnational clothing.
If it is the latter, we should call a spade a spade.
For the sake of Greece – and of Europe – the authorities need to call a spade a spade.
In his famous essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell pointed to the widespread use of euphemism, which means not calling a spade a spade.
It is time to call a spade a spade: the Republican Party is overwhelmingly responsible.
But let’s call a spade a spade and a (legal) subsidy a subsidy.
Among the gardens, the man who was digging stood with one foot on his spade, and with rounded eyes.
She was unpicking the lining of a dress, and the strips were scattered around her.Madame Bovary senior was plying her scissor without looking up, and Charles, in his list slippers and his old brown surtout that he used as a dressing-gown, sat with both hands in his pockets, and did not speak either; near them Berthe, in a little white pinafore, was raking sand in the walks with her spade.
Then Bournisien took the spade handed to him by Lestiboudois; with his left hand all the time sprinkling water, with the right he vigorously threw in a large spadeful; and the wood of the coffin, struck by the pebbles, gave forth that dread sound that seems to us the reverberation of eternity.
It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten.
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.
They were too much absorbed in hating themselves--hating the ill luck that made them take the spade and the pick there.
The council gave him an order to paint his Majesty's arms over the door of the town-hall; he asked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked for eight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and then said he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned the money, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a good workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush and taken a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman.
'We want to put this horse up here,' said Mr. Pickwick; 'I suppose we can, can't we?''Want to put that ere horse up, do ee?' repeated the red- headed man, leaning on his spade.
The astonishment of the village may be easily imagined, when (the little stone having been raised with one wrench of a spade) Mr. Pickwick, by dint of great personal exertion, bore it with his own hands to the inn, and after having carefully washed it, deposited it on the table.
'A little before twilight, one Christmas Eve, Gabriel shouldered his spade, lighted his lantern, and betook himself towards the old churchyard; for he had got a grave to finish by next morning, and, feeling very low, he thought it might raise his spirits, perhaps, if he went on with his work at once.
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