cobbles
Britishplural noun
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coal in small rounded lumps
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cobblestones
Example Sentences
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A dedicated group of volunteers spend the year leading up to the race maintaining the cobbles to try to keep the course safe, while ensuring the unique profile remains.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 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
Actress Helen Worth is to leave Coronation Street street after five decades on the cobbles.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024
The chimneys were contributing their thickness to the clammy air, and the pleasant reek of smoked herring and mackerel and haddock seemed to breathe out of the very cobbles.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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