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Meanings of shingle beach in English

Russian
галечный пляж
Spanish
playa de guijarros
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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 "pebble beach"
Examples for "pebble beach"
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The boat with Frank, Amyas, and the six seamen reached the pebble beach.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
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I was maybe ten yards away from a pebble beach.
Ghost Story
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Another track, curling downwards, reaches a tiny pebble beach.
BBC
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This pretty horseshoe-shaped cove with a white pebble beach is extremely important for its geology.
The South African
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So she flew down the steps to the pebble beach and began to scuttle across it.
Hush: a novel
1
On this cold cobble beach, Williams would do the skinning.
The Guardian
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A shore road led a couple of miles from town to a long set of stairs down to a cobbled beach.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of shingle beach in English
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There's no seating, so take your fish supper straight down to the shingle beach.
The Guardian
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The fisherman landed the boat on a small shingle beach.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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A four-metre-high skull, sitting on a shingle beach, surrounded by a matrix of hanging speakers.
The Irish Times
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It should not have flown across the Atlantic to end up on a shingle beach in Kent.
The Guardian
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Beyond the windows, the noise of the crowd was rising like surf on a hard shingle beach.
Altered carbon
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But whether I was by the fire indoors, or on the shingle beach, his system was ever the same.
Poor Jack
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Locals say the storm has changed the shape of the famous shingle beach, which now slopes down sharply towards the sea.
The Guardian
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Half the shingle beach is given up to fisherfolk and their boats and tarred Noah's arks where they keep their nets.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
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On a bright afternoon, we take the track close to the shore from the shingle beach towards the headland called White Nothe.
The Guardian
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The grating sound made by a boat thrust out from a shingle beach came to their ears above the whispering of the tide.
Dope
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The house of Philip Bramble was situated on the further side of a road which ran along the shore, just above the shingle beach.
Poor Jack
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A Deal boat came alongside, we got into it, they landed us on the shingle beach, and I followed Bramble up to his abode.
Poor Jack
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Tonight, the village's shingle beach on the Suffolk coast will fill to the strains of his greatest opera, Peter Grimes, in a special open-air performance.
The Irish Times
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Paddling hard, they drove her out of the eddies that circled along the bank, and finding a slack, ran her on to a shingle beach.
The Lure of the North
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It's surrounded by this incredible garden, which he created from the shingle beach. Half of the £3.5m has been raised by private donors.
The Guardian
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It separates the two shingle beaches of Durdle Door and the Man O'war beach.
The South African
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