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
Part of the Howe of Fife is light and shingly and covered with heather.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
Read his "Last Walk in Autumn," where he says:— "Home of my heart! to me more fair Than gay Versailles or Windsor's halls, The painted, shingly town-house where The freeman's vote for Freedom falls!"
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane
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
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