How to Use shovel-ready in a Sentence

shovel-ready

adjective
  • That’s where many of the shovel-ready projects are.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The Arlington Heights site is shovel-ready.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Such commitments are also nonbinding, leaving it unclear when, or if, such projects will be shovel-ready.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Cebe said Phase 1’s site engineering is on track to be shovel-ready by the summer, aiming to break ground next year.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The earliest that the pier and lifeguard headquarters project could be shovel-ready is 2027.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The marine terminal that will assemble the turbines was supposed to be shovel-ready as soon as 2026.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
  • About $6 million is still needed to complete the design, engineering and permit work needed to get project shovel-ready, Lee said.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Advocates say the funds would help build more than 40,000 shovel-ready affordable homes that are unable to move forward because of a financing gap and help preserve thousands of other existing units.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Lenders hesitate, underwriting collapses, and shovel-ready developments stall.
    — Jenna Abbott, Oc Register, 30 Nov. 2025

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