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
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
On the eve of the referendum, students in Rome wrote a call to the polls on the cobbles of a city square.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 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
Demetrius stares at a hunk of wood poking out of the blood-browned cobbles at the base of the belltower.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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