cobbles
Britishplural noun
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coal in small rounded lumps
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cobblestones
Example Sentences
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He showed a barren creekbed filled with cobbles, then a green wetland filled with ducks.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
He’d barreled over wet cobbles past shivering farmers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
“The nodules sit on the seafloor like cobbles in a street,” said Diva Amon, a marine biologist at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2025
The 64-year-old, who once made a cameo appearance in comedy series Friends, described walking on the famous cobbles as a "huge moment".
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024
His horse’s hoofs, however, had no sooner clattered on the cobbles than she came flying from her tower room to welcome him with delight.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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