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Meanings of pebble in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "stone"
Examples for "stone"
1
He said: ''My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.''
2
History: A field stone building, originally a home, built in the 1890s.
3
Unfortunately the staircase was in stone; servants were busy in the drawing-room.
4
He may, indeed, require divine help to roll aside this particular stone.
5
The stone steps are disjointed; the bell-cord is rotten; the gutter-spouts broken.
Usage of pebble in английском
1
Then I hear his voice, and a pebble rattles the glass: 'Nell!
2
He said: Yes; the wise man hides a pebble on the beach.
3
A pebble came free beneath her foot and she slid, falling sideways.
4
A pebble in the stream would turn the current of their convictions.
5
I let the pebble slip through my fingers into the water below.
6
In this case, the support itself, the pebble, completes the outer wall.
7
They went out, the boy in front, and onto the pebble-bank nearby.
8
The gray earth and mist gave way to a drizzly, pebble-littered beach.
9
Hoffman wouldn't allow so much as a single pebble to be touched.
10
The Prince has never wavered in his loyalty to that pebble, sir.
11
Not a mesquite twig snapped under his body; not a pebble rattled.
12
The pebble fragments gave practically as good mirrors as the fused slices.
13
He gave her a pebble to hold, then spat on it quickly.
14
Kitty lifted up a pebble and let it drop into the water.
15
He picked up a pebble presently and threw it into the lake.
16
So it thinks I am a mere dainty pebble amongst modern spacecraft.
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Pebble through the time
Pebble across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common