spade|spades in English

noun

[speɪd]

long-handled digging tool with a narrow iron blade that is pressed into the ground with the foot; black figure in the shape of an upside down heart with a short stem that is used on playing cards; playing card marked with a spade

Use "spade|spades" in a sentence

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1. Call a spade a spade.

2. I believe in calling a spade a spade.

3. Let's call a spade a spade. This man is a swindler.

4. I need a spade.

5. He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.

6. Donghai Securities analyst Wang told reporters who call a spade a spade.

7. The three of spades?

8. He said, "It could be a high spade or a low spade."

9. Suits are ranked in Bridge from Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, to …

10. She has always preferred people to call a spade a spade.

11. He shut the opposition outbid of five spades.

12. Why don't you call a spade a spade? He's a rude, uncaring, selfish man!

13. Only perfect defense could set four spades.

14. Why not call a spade a spade and say that she's incompetent, if that what you're thinking.

15. Man, he took the five of spades!

16. He laid the spade by the door.

17. I have the ace of spades too!

18. Let's spade up the garden.

19. I dug with a spade.

20. Why did you buy a spade?

21. There's a little spade an'rake an'a fork an'hoe.

22. You should have led a high spade.

23. And it's no use calling a spade an effing shovel, when saying spade would have been far more effective.

24. This spade is made of iron.

25. The spade jarred on something metal.