shale
noun
a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
shaly
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a word derived from
shale.
Example Sentences
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They spent a night on a shaly beach, with no shelter and no fire.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
A little distance below my camp site, the moraine-covered snout gives place to pinnacled ice, divided into three sections by two broad, shaly medial moraines.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
They made out a narrow, oblique cavern, formed by the widening of what geologists call a "fault" in the shaly rock.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
When the rock becomes coarse by the admixture of sand, it gradually passes into a shaly sandstone.
From Geology by James Geikie
After searching for half an hour, they found a spot where a wall of shaly rock barred their way.
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Ralph Peacock
