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Meanings of cobble beach in English

Russian
галечный пляж
Spanish
playa de guijarros
Catalan
codolar
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A shingle beach (also referred to as rocky beach or pebble beach) is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small- to medium-sized cobbles (as opposed to fine sand).

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      галечный пляж
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      Examples for "shingle beach"
      Examples for "shingle beach"
      1
      There's no seating, so take your fish supper straight down to the shingle beach.
      The Guardian
      2
      The fisherman landed the boat on a small shingle beach.
      The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
      3
      A four-metre-high skull, sitting on a shingle beach, surrounded by a matrix of hanging speakers.
      The Irish Times
      4
      It should not have flown across the Atlantic to end up on a shingle beach in Kent.
      The Guardian
      5
      Beyond the windows, the noise of the crowd was rising like surf on a hard shingle beach.
      Altered carbon
      1
      The boat with Frank, Amyas, and the six seamen reached the pebble beach.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
      2
      I was maybe ten yards away from a pebble beach.
      Ghost Story
      3
      Another track, curling downwards, reaches a tiny pebble beach.
      BBC
      4
      This pretty horseshoe-shaped cove with a white pebble beach is extremely important for its geology.
      The South African
      5
      So she flew down the steps to the pebble beach and began to scuttle across it.
      Hush: a novel
      Usage of cobble beach in English
      1
      On this cold cobble beach, Williams would do the skinning.
      The Guardian
      2
      A shore road led a couple of miles from town to a long set of stairs down to a cobbled beach.
      Climbing Magazine
      Translations for cobble beach
      Catalan
      codolar