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Meanings of
shingly
in English
Abounding in small stones.
gravelly
pebbly
Related terms
beachy
beachlike
Usage of
shingly
in English
1
The configuration of the
shingly
beach changed while one looked at it.
2
Every variety of shore, from
shingly
beaches to craggy headlands, was theirs.
3
It was the sound of hoof-strokes on the
shingly
bed of the cañon.
4
A regular and well-defined channel placed us on the
shingly
and sandy beach.
5
Good sound watering-place;
shingly
and sandy beach for about a mile.
6
The waves broke with a great noise on the
shingly
beach.
7
At the same moment the boat's keel grated softly on the
shingly
shore.
8
A white mackintosh lay under a handful of stones upon the
shingly
beach.
9
When the meal was over, Murata drew Geoffrey aside into his
shingly
garden.
10
Their route ran now among large, scattered boulders, and between stony,
shingly
hills.
11
Along the rippled sands (stay, are they rippled sands or
shingly
beach?)
12
Conceive my horror and stupefaction!- Iwastreading a hard, dusty,
shingly
road of granite.
13
At the end of it we came to the shallow river with the
shingly
bottom.
14
The sculptor turned up the
shingly
slope toward the sun-white ridge of higher hills inland.
15
It was then very shallow, and a great part of its
shingly
bed was dry.
16
Some distance away a creek wound between wide banks of
shingly
sand and low boulders.
Other examples for "shingly"
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shingly
Adjective
Adverb
Frequent collocations
shingly beach
shingly bed
shingly bottom
shingly shore
shingly sides
More collocations
Shingly
through the time
Shingly
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common