1. Call a spade a spade.

2. I dug with a spade.

3. There was a garden spade in the shed.

4. The spade jarred on something metal.

5. The gardener felt something hard with his spade.

6. This spade is made of iron.

7. After years of gardening, the marks of the spade were impressed on the skin of the old gardener's hands.

8. His spade Q was sweated down.

9. I believe in calling a spade a spade.

10. Dad uses a spade to dig the garden.

11. The spade clanged when it hit the rock.

12. Let's spade up the garden.

13. Turn the soil over with a spade.

14. Why did you buy a spade?

15. We needed to take three more spade tricks.

16. The spade sank into a clump of overgrown bushes.

17. You should have led a high spade.

18. You must play a spade if you have one.

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19. He laid the spade by the door.

20. Just give him a bucket and spade and he's in seventh heaven!

21. His spade cleaved the firm sand with a satisfying crunch.

22. I used a spade to beat down the mud until it was flat and hard.

23. The spade and fork have longer shafts,[sentencedict.com] providing better leverage.

24. The woman stuck her spade in the ground.

25. Press the soil flat with the back of a spade.

26. The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.

27. I took my two-year old nephew down to the beach with his bucket and spade.

28. Bob , who had no intention of working, leaned lazily on his spade.

29. I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade.

30. He dug a deep hole in the lawn with his spade.