shingly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of shingly
Example Sentences
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"They always come out at the same place. That's where they shout from," Antonio says, pointing across the wide Manu River to a small shingly beach on the other side.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
Every year, it is washed down from higher up in the mountains and finds its way to bedrock, which, in the case of the Bear River, is a very shingly riverbed.
From National Geographic • Sep. 2, 2015
Great seas were thundering in upon the shingly beach and leaping madly over pier and wall.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
She was there, her hands touched his, she walked beside him up the shingly path.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
He remembered the slight stir on the shingly soil as he came from the hut on the night he had taken the opals from Charley.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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