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
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
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
The draper sat upon the cobbles of the street, his hair lank, and a daughter of perhaps my age wandered about through the wreckage, picking up silks and attempting to drag them back inside.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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