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
The tide was coming in slowly and imperceptibly, and rippling like silver bells on the shingly beach.
From A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking
The words were hardly out of his mouth when a dull, rasping sound announced the unpleasant fact that the submarine was scraping over the shingly bottom.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
She found him lying there, stretched across the shingly earth.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
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