cobbles
Britishplural noun
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coal in small rounded lumps
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cobblestones
Example Sentences
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And so the same peloton will be hurtling along the cobbles a couple of months before gliding through the sunflowers of a French summer.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Kigali, not far from the wall-like cobbles of Kwe Mutwe, I felt the hair on my arms stand up.
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
Hundreds of Catholics gathered outside in St Peter's Square on Monday for an eighth evening to pray for the Pope's health, many carrying rosary beads as they headed towards across the cobbles towards the Basilica.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
It was around noon when the wagon turned onto a new road, this one wide as a river and paved with cobbles.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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