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Sentence Examples Paving stones and pebbles are set into the ground so you are not in danger of slipping on wet grass. In cross-section, the deposits consist of unsorted pebbles, cobbles, and boulders in a matrix of fine-grained debris. I lie on the pebbles like a beached whale, listening to the laughter of my buddy. I have to say, though, that it really is a lot of fun, and heaps better than painting pebbles. After this, the pilgrim travels to Mudalifah and collects seventy pea-sized pebbles, which will be used the following day for throwing. I slide through the gravel, embedding a few pebbles in the babyfat around my beltline. I love stony beaches the best, and love searching amongst the pebbles for those of a curious shape or an unusual colour. On top of them put some natural objects such as shells, pebbles, leaves, fruit, flowers or plants or bonsai. The seabed here is made up of heavy granite pebbles and shingle, so the visibility is often very good. Mostly it's sand, sometimes a fine shingle, sometimes pebbles of every hue, and here and there flat shale for skimming the waves. Youths have been using pebbles from the surface as missiles to throw at residents' windows. Some 200 pebbles, collectively weighing 2.5 kg were recovered from the gut region of a moa skeleton in New Zealand. There were hardly any waves just a gentle shushing on the pebbles of the beach. Right before you turn into the cemetery, there's a little side road, unnamed, that's made entirely of dirt and pebbles. Prior to the experiments, this natural sand was sieved to remove pebbles and organic material. Your hired motor boat is bobbing up and down at anchor, occasionally nudging the pebbles on the beach as a bigger wave breaks. Dwarf mondo grass edges paths made from bluestone and black Mexican beach pebbles. The tiny tots tried to explain about maths with the use of small pebbles by counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication. The analogy that I like to use is that it is like taking a sledgehammer to a large boulder and breaking it up so the pebbles can be washed away. Reaching to his belt, Hawk pulled out a slingshot and some flat river pebbles from a pouch. Show More Sentences The bora ground itself was identified by two circles that were drawn on the ground or were formed by rocks or pebbles. He had found the path, cut through the forest, followed the trail of pebbles and watched the signs leading to nowhere. Irony belongs with those loose pebbles by the road and the occasional cracked windshield. An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation. It's a lovely place and we walked across stepping stones and skimmed pebbles in the river. There's a roar and a billowing cloud of dust as the silver off-roader pulls into the drive and hurtles straight at me, scattering pebbles. The eclectic garden uses Mexican pebbles as a ground-cover and is punctuated with yellow-blooming kangaroo paws and purple-flowered hebes. The guitar returns, its strings seemingly snapped frantically as crackling pebbles fuse into a single shrill noise. Both parents help build the burrow and nest chamber, which is lined with leaves, twigs, and pebbles. Cyril paused to lift up one of the horse's hooves and check it for pebbles and mud. Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles. We didn't have any bread so we chucked in pebbles to get their attention and keep them flapping and diving for us. His eyes were cold grey pebbles against the ancient parchment of his complexion. Something blocked his passage, despite his clear view of the dirt, trampled plants, and pebbles of the path outside. The ibisbill feeds by probing among the cobble and pebbles of the cold streams that it inhabits. Evelyn put the rest of her right foot into the lake to rest her feet on top of the smooth pebbles at the bottom. A simple bowl with river pebbles, water and floating candles are a nice decoration. I sat down and threw pebbles at the water's edge and all of a sudden heard a stifled laugh. This is done with small stones or pebbles, or other convenient small objects. There are rocks and pebbles, heaps of different tiny metallic things that resonate. Show More Sentences Rounded pebbles suggest that one or many rivers had run their course through the now-submerged region. Doris spent the day throwing pebbles into dark water that absorbed every dream she ever had. He gently shook the jar, and the sand fell through and settled where there was a space between the rocks and the pebbles. Stones and pebbles are dropped into the exposed corner of the hole, and thunder as they land. And they even marked out the anniversary with a five-metre high message in stones and pebbles. They consist of particulate rocks that vary in size from sand to pebbles and cobbles. We had sediments, river mud, pebbles rounded by water action, even the remains of aquatic plants on the site. Scattered on the rocks around it is a rough circle of river smooth pebbles with holes in them. There was a tiny old Asian lady sitting on the beach putting pebbles in a metal bowl. All the kid has to do is to collect some smooth pebbles, each around the size of his or her palm. Birds were singing, in tune to the slow movement of water over the pebbles. Beneath her she could feel the coarse grit of sand and pebbles, and in the air she could smell the ocean. Piling pebbles upon the beach, the water laps against the sky, the low sound measuring time's loss, the imponderable construction of a memory. There would be piers, cafes, a wee beach type affair resplendent with the shiny pebbles, seaweed and rock pools remembered from childhood. A few pebbles from my drive in a party balloon partially inflated with water served the purpose. Put a few pinholes and pebbles in the bottom of the jugs, as the pebbles will keep them from blowing around when they're empty. Since there are as many different Inuksuit as there are pebbles on the beach, it is possible to draw an infinite variety of statues. Surrounding the slab is a flagstone patio with Japanese black pebbles in the cracks. He speaks in a polished, precise manner, but with a bouncy Trinidadian inflection rippling through, like pebbles tossed across a pond. At the base of the Reading Formation are several metres of brown clay-rich sand with glauconite, flint pebbles and oyster shells. Show More Sentences On their knees they shuffled around the tank, peering into the corners among the big pebbles, at the gravel and the pondweed. I glanced towards the side of the driveway where a small flower garden was surrounded by pebbles. They had been trekking for three days so far, stepping through knee-high grasses, fording crystalline streams, slipping on patches of pebbles. Cautiously they both walked onward, pebbles crunching underneath their thinly booted feet. The only sound was the lapping of the waves and the occasional crunch as our little motorboat moved against pebbles on the shoreline. First, dirt is screened to remove pebbles, rocks and organic debris, such as roots. Broad expanses of desert pavement, a delicate carpet of pebbles on which a footprint will remain for decades, often detour us. A lot of the times when it's granulated it looks like those rocks you see on lawns, only more broken down, like pebbles. Chicks should be able to dip only their beaks into the water dish, so place pebbles, marbles, or a screen in the dish. His hand went up to his face and before he had a chance to wonder what had caused it, a rain of small pebbles fell from the sky. To prepare a surface for planting, use a flat-head rake to clear away pebbles and other debris and to smooth out terrain. Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone. Smaller pebbles outline larger ones, and the light on dark scheme recalls contemporary red-figure vase painting. The Australian Bower Bird decorates his nest with colorful pebbles, bits of glass, and insect wings. He then decorates his bower with colourful objects, from flowers and pebbles to berries, shells, and beetle wing cases. Today, however, fog wreathed the tiny islet, and covered the sand and pebbles at his feet with beadlets of moisture. A stone from the top of the wall broke free, triggering a small landslide of pebbles, and landed with a resounding splash in the stream below. No recognition came to mind and she ambled along, kicking pebbles of dry, golden dirt as she went. Weeds often cause problems so use an ornamental ground cover or spread pebbles or stone chips. The conglomerate was deposited in tributary stream channels, and the pebbles consist almost entirely of quartz-feldspar phenocrystic rhyolite. Show More Sentences I found a perfect little cave with pebbles scattered on the floor, and just next to it a rock pool. The south-eastern slope bears heavy loessic soil, mixed with superficial pebbles and compact loam soil. This process is repeated and pebbles gradually shift along the beach, a process called longshore drift. The material used is a mixture of cement, sharp sand and crushed rock or pebbles. On the days prior to Ash Wednesday, women and girls made small bags into which ashes or small stones or pebbles were placed. Above the rusticated north arches is another grotesque mask, carrying a pearl swag, also done in shells with a background of pebbles. The beach, which I'd always pictured as miles of golden sand, is actually a short stretch of pebbles. They are pebbles that were magicked into looking like the coppers for three hours. Phalaenopsis orchids need a good deal of moisture and standing the pot on a saucer of pebbles and daily misting should achieve this. Before she could contemplate further, a scattering of small pebbles and concrete dust fell down on her from the pier above. When I think of those marbly black pebbles on our beach, it almost makes me hungry, for what they represent, that is. They will even swallow pebbles and rocks, which aid digestion by helping to mash the food in the crocodile's stomach. When viewed from above, the shells appear to represent small piles of pebbles, with the smallest ones on the upper spire and the largest ones on the body whorl. Cyril stooped and picked up a handful of small pebbles and jounced them in his hand to shake away the loose dust, then the resumed their leisurely walk along the track. The scratched detailing of the vignettes and the presence of feathery foliage, pebbles, and floral bouquets enable the definitive attribution of these pieces to Giles. Diamonds and precious gems littered the ground like pebbles. Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes. The powder is usually fabricated by the mechanical commutation of vacuum-cast ingots of magnesium-reduced beryllium pebbles or electrolytically produced beryllium flakes. The owner then had to use a rattle can, which is an empty soda can filled with pebbles, to encourage their horse to canter at least once around the arena. If you don't have a glue pot, cover the bottom of a saucepan with marbles or pebbles so as to support the tin can free of the bottom during heating. Show More Sentences The acupressure track has been laid with stone pebbles and tiles. The track follows closely beside the concrete channel and takes you round the side of a steep hill of sandstone and pebbles covered with red tree lupins in late spring. The concrete path is studded with local river rocks of varying sizes, from pointy pebbles to smooth skipping stones to softball-sized protrusions. For pebbles and larger particles, surface textures, such as weathering pits and percussion fractures, provide important clues to particle history. Large, relatively well-preserved bivalve shells, rhodoliths and nodular bryozoans occur together with volcanic pebbles, at the front of the landward-dipping beds. She placed a fountain in a circle of pebbles ringed first by gravel, then by grasses, the whole surrounded by a circular pathway of railway sleepers set into natural stone. They line the burrow tunnel with pebbles and shell fragments. We listened to the sound of our footfalls on pebbles, on leaves, on twigs. But in the case of planetary disks, colliding rocks at the edges of the solar systems are pulverized into pebbles, causing particles to be flung in all directions. The rebel leader also prays within concentric circles drawn in ash or pebbles and has a choir of young girls, some dressed as nuns, to sing his praises. Surrounded by small Mexican pebbles, a young sago palm rises from a square, 30-inch-deep stain-less steel planter column, one of two flanking the rear stairway. What kid doesn't bring home interesting pebbles, or sand from the beach? The guard pointed to the sling and bag of pebbles looped onto Rose's belt. Lined with finely leveled cement, the niche is floored with river pebbles. In each bladder was a small quantity of dried pease or little pebbles. I had enough of pebbles being kicked up at my car, of balls purposely thrown at my windshield, of gargantuan sized twelve year olds banging on my trunk. It quickly became apparent that Grace had stuffed six or seven pebbles in there. Fights and chases erupt when personal penguin space is invaded or when young marauders snitch a few prized pebbles to start building nests of their own. Try to remove all large rocks, pebbles, and plant material from the soil. One popular story is about El Duende, an imp with a big sombrero, red trousers and a blue jacket, who courts pretty young girls by tossing pebbles at them. Show More Sentences I lingered a long time in the rocky little cove, skimming pebbles of green marble across the waves and picturing the saint arriving on such a day of threatening weather. I found rabbit bones as delicate and thin as the finest eggshell porcelain, and crunched across the beaches to pick up pebbles of orange, green and black. A lens-like conglomerate interbed, with flat pebbles of the underlying dolostone, occurs on the 3a and 3b boundary. Eleven undiagnosable flakes removed from small flint beach pebbles have been uncovered there. They also need to cast the devil's stelae seven times with little pebbles on the second day of the Hajj. Appearing as the ground erodes, the fragments and fossil teeth look like flat white pebbles. It was probably gathered in streams in Cornwall and Devon as cassiterite pebbles and traded in this raw, unrefined state. A blue and white theme is complemented by driftwood and beach pebbles, combined with some seaside planting of agapanthus and sea hollies. You could use Sagina subulata, Portulaca grandiflora and Briza maxima, along with a pretty collection of shells and pebbles. The ridges are made up of brownish sandy sediments, including whole and fragmented marine mollusk shells and rounded caliche pebbles. It contains the remains of an early Bronze Age ruler laid out on white quartz pebbles and birch bark. On a small scale, this can be achieved by placing the plant in a wide saucer containing pebbles that are kept permanently wet. The wall on the inland side of the Mount is built from pebbles, in traditional Fylde style. Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs. The gray flecks soaked through and sank wetly among the smooth pebbles underfoot. Scrub the pebbles and fountain clean, then use an algicide such as TetraPond AlgoFin every 4-6 weeks throughout summer. Other types of bezoars include trichobezoar, composed of hair, and lithobezoar, composed of hard concretions such as small stones or pebbles. Phosphorus is bound in apatite of lingulate brachiopods Paterina and Mickwitzia and phosphatic pebbles. With heavily scratched and weathered surfaces, the pieces are variously reminiscent of ancient standing stones, beach pebbles or razor shells. I picked them up, and found that they weren't pebbles at all, but hard, redshelled kidney beans. Show More Sentences The castle stands on a shallow tip projecting into the Firth, alongside two beaches, one of sand, the other of pebbles. Hermes argued so skillfully that he ended up buried under a heap of pebbles, and this was the first cairn. Flint rarely occurs in Wales other than in drifts, or as small pebbles on beaches. Masses of white, finely oolitic rock are attached to the outside of some of these coated pebbles. Although he attempted to bury it under the pebbles at the time of his surrender, he was spotted and the plan retrieved by the Germans. These diamictite rocks are composed of finely ground mud, containing a jumble of faceted pebbles. Just off the end of the Needles formation is the Shingles, a shifting shoal of pebbles just beneath the waves. Examples include seashells moved inland, or rounded pebbles placed away from the water action that made them. Lacking teeth, they swallow pebbles that act as gastroliths to grind food in the gizzard. Calculation was facilitated by moving piles of tokens, seeds or pebbles between compartments of the yupana. He pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate. The crowd hurls pebbles at her, which turn into little cakes. Select pond plants that thrive in just a few inches of water, such as striped sedge, marsh marigold and water mint, and arrange on top of the pebbles. To create this structure, between 1756 and 1759, British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate. They range in size from pebbles to boulders, but as they are often moved great distances, they may be drastically different from the material upon which they are found. Before this capture the Nive had deposited pebbles from the Mindel glaciation of medium to large sizes that slowed erosion of the hills causing the bottleneck at Bayonne. Some species may swallow stones or pebbles for reasons not understood. They were dancing to the tune of incessant yowlings, the thudding of wooden drums and the monotonous dry rattling of pebbles in turtle-shell rattles. To help digestion, loons swallow small pebbles from the bottoms of lakes. I longed to be part of the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder club, if only I had boulders to hold! Or small stones. Even pebbles would have been acceptable. Examples from Classical Literature Upon this rests a pumiceous breccia and conglomerate, with angular masses of trachyte, and some quartz pebbles. A brook's wimpling waters strayed Lashed into foam, but dancing on again And rolling pebbles in their chattering flow. Some specimens of variegated pebbles and jasper were found here imbedded in the amygdaloidal rock. This species is also attached to floating timber, sticks, fuci, and occasionally to pebbles at the bottom of the sea. A vote was taken on the question of exile, and the black pebbles predominated. It is an agglomerate made of pebbles and cement, the pebbles being elongated as if by pressure. The children did, and placed pebbles for the head and shoulders of Ophiuchus. The rock is not one mass of stone, but a concretion of pebbles and earth, so firm that it does not appear to have mouldered. A cement bottom for shallow water may be disguised by imbedding pebbles and small stones in the cement before it sets. The pebbles on the beach under the water looked as if they were in a basin of blueing. I have seen springs around which the plants and the pebbles were coated with an incrustation of lime. It is a volley of pebbles that the mistral carries with it as a torrent does. The Waves plashed on the shore and told stories to the pebbles and the sands. It consisted of a yellow sandstone in thin strata, covered in some parts with beds of waterworn pebbles. Seaside and river gravel, which is composed usually of rounded, waterworn pebbles, is unfit for surfacing roads. Whilst heating this sand upon platinum, decrepitation was audible, which indicated the cracking of some of the little pebbles. By a striking exercise of artistic license the sticks were ponies, cows, and dogs, and the pebbles were sheep. Towards this, its diluvial banks, charged with boulders and pebbles, sloped at a steep angle. The shore soon assumes a diluvial character, bordered with long lines of yellow sand and pebbles. A breccia is a rock made up of angular pebbles or fragments of other rocks. Show More Sentences Again, below the cave-earth was a breccia formed of limestone and sandstone pebbles cemented together by a calcareous paste. I now discovered the source of the beautiful pebbles which had so pleased me in the riverbed. All instinct like the bird in drouth got water out of the end of a jar by throwing in pebbles. The first signal from the mother, a mellow, solicitous coo-ee transforms them into immovable pebbles or tufts of dryas. The wall between the garden and hemp-field was roughcast with lime and pebbles. Among its pebbles her feet still ran on, under the chill of icy water. I got some beautiful polished pebbles from banda and Nerbudda. It was like throwing pebbles at the bowlder in the Malad, the day before. Also, why are the painted pebbles only known in a few brochs of Caithness? Hundreds of barrowsful of earth amalgamated with pebbles, and rounded into cones, with sinuous. We headed him with pebbles till he retired through a window to the tuneful reminder that he had left a lot of little things behind him. The thin air refreshed him, and he sat on the edge of precipices with the best of them, and, when talk languished, flung pebbles into the void. Not an enemy was to be seen, and what was still more surprising, not a single man dropped, though the pebbles fell among the leaves like hail. To Brand they seemed as numberless as the pebbles on the seashore. At dungeness, in Kent, it flourishes even among the pebbles of the beach. In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. During all this, some added to the noise by rattling pebbles in a gourd. Right up through the pebbles, bubbling and gurgling it came. North of the Colorado this bed thins out, and the pebbles become exceedingly small, and here the characteristic vegetation of Patagonia ceases. After that we had a few minutes of silence, while I sorted out the pebbles, and amused myself with watching Bruno's plan of gardening. Show More Sentences He gave the boat a push which sent it grinding down the pebbles into the sea. The rocks in the channel of the paillon appeared to be a bed of pebbles. And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone. In summer the merry stream had danced over white pebbles on its way to deep pools where it could be still and think. Beyond the sand are great pebbles covered with rockweed and barnacles. This was a fountain, set round with a rim of old mossy stones, and paved, in its bed, with what appeared to be a sort of mosaic-work of variously colored pebbles. To-day, they manifested a particular attachment to a well at the bottom of the lawn, where they persisted in dabbling with sticks and pebbles for above half an hour. Nevertheless, there were people of the Cabaret les Vantes, who said that they had seen her pass along the road to Paris, walking on the pebbles with her bare feet. It has young trees and baby bushes on each side of it, and it's a shallow chattering little brook with a white sandy bottom and lots of little shiny pebbles. Edmond, amazed, wonderstruck, filled his pockets with the radiant gems and then returned to daylight, when be discovered that his prizes had all changed into common pebbles. Here he sees a brook whose limpid waters, like liquid crystal, ripple over fine sands and white pebbles that look like sifted gold and purest pearls. Find more words! 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