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Sentence Examples These delightful visitors from Scandinavia and northern Russia spend winter days on the windswept saltings, shingle strands and tidelines. There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town. Unless you have a table saw the best approach is to use a straightedge to guide a utility knife, and score and break the shingle. In contrast, at high tide, the steep shingle beach produces plunging breakers against the berm causing the seaward movement of material. These were of brick, built on the surface but surrounded with a traverse and topped with a six foot thick shingle filled concrete sandwich roof. We were standing near the beach watching the embers of someone else's fire and listening to waves break on the shingle. Three sides of the feature shelved gently as the waves pushed the shingle towards the shore. Under water, the shingle beach shelves down to rows of small rocks and kelp beneath the low-water mark. Local people eat limpets and the gonads of shingle urchins uncooked but they eat nerites and periwinkles boiled. Two blades of the propeller are buried in the shingle seabed, with the hub just clear. December storms had beaten her to and fro and at last the sea had cast her up onto the shingle. He had had to undergo a lot of abuse, and his fellow-dairymen had looked upon him as a man who was a shingle short. In mid-2001, Lucy again hung out her shingle and offered psychiatric help for five cents. Those who hang out their shingle without this knowledge, perpetrate the myth that skill acquisition is not necessary. The Los Angeles Angels hung out their shingle to little fanfare in 1961 as an American League expansion franchise. He negotiated a good lease, and hung out his shingle in an upscale neighborhood. Now, thanks to advances in photovoltaic technology, it's possible to shingle your roof with solar tiles. This is my only reason for justifying the shingle hanging outside in the boulevard. But he was never the small-time lawyer, with only a desk and a shingle, that some made him out to be. So, I'll leave my shingle hanging outside this virtual stoop a while longer. Show More Sentences If your house originally had wooden shingles, maybe a brown colored asphalt shingle would work best. The tide has driven multitudes of waders onto the shell and shingle banks, where a long line of roosting birds shuffles restlessly. Mostly it's sand, sometimes a fine shingle, sometimes pebbles of every hue, and here and there flat shale for skimming the waves. A cedar shingle wall is beautiful from the start of its life all the way through to final dissolution. A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted. To do this, cut 6 inches off the first shingle of the second course at the rake of the slope. There are shingle beaches where grayling spawn, rattling rapids and wooded islands that spread wide the flow. As you make your way back to the shore, the shallows are a good place to spot grey mullet foraging among the shingle. When viewed up close on a sample board, only the shingle manufacturer's artifice will be apparent. The gradients associated with these profiles also vary between sand and shingle beaches, the latter being generally steeper. Below nestled a shingle cove of limpid water and fearless little fish, qualities that tend to bring the boy out of the man. It is just such entities as the demise of my golden chain tree and the sprouting of my shingle oak. What would happen if the sand or shingle was too fine to allow the movement of vehicles on the beaches? I find soft, powdery sand, hard sand, loose shingle banks and a couple of streams. The seabed here is made up of heavy granite pebbles and shingle, so the visibility is often very good. A footpath along the shore gives views across the bay and you will spot birds that make their homes in the shingle and pebble beach. We cross a swing bridge over the Grey River and make our way through a forest of mature southern Beech trees to a wide shingle beach. They'll settle for shingle banks with light weed growth and this tends to be the type of ground they are feeding over when you're fishing off steep sandy beaches. The shingle recently bid its co-founder and CEO James Schamus adieu, replacing him with FilmDistrict CEO Peter Schlessel. While thus fettered I was seized and flung down by a heavy sea which retreating suddenly left me lying naked on the sharp shingle from which I rose streaming with blood. Show More Sentences He applied the same cedar shingle siding and roofing he used the first time around on the new addition but upped the weatherproofing factor with a rubber roof membrane. Pundits put out a shingle with a new website and go around asking the usual suspects for money to get them up and running. They accepted, and re-released their debut in 2010 on Interscope shingle Cherrytree Records to critical acclaim. The favoured stretch of shingle beach and marram was again fenced off. In and out of the shingle shallows the fish tried to find escape. Also look for shingle banks, areas of mixed mud and stony ground that holds numbers of dabs, and the ends of headlands that jut out to sea where a tide race forms. Green turtles can be observed in the waters from July to the end of September, when they come ashore to nest on the sand and shingle beaches on the island's eastern side. Probable reasons for this disappearance are a change in climate and more importantly, an increase in human disturbance on their breeding haunts of shingle beaches. Most of the Thames Bank is shingle and stone, so sand is relatively rare. In Norfolk they are to be seen most regularly in the neighbourhood of Cley and Blakeney, on the landward slopes of shingle banks and on rough grassy ground behind. We should be able to hang out our shingle like any other professional. He hung out his shingle in 1988 and has never been a member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers because they do not represent his interests. I'm not keen on someone who's a shingle short living so close to my kids. He sowed them on and put a thin piece of a shingle on the inside of his hand to support the fingers and applied sticking plasters to the upper side of his fingers. It's one of the loveliest walks in the Lakes with shingle beaches where you can have a paddle and watch the yachts sail gracefully by or feed the birds on the lake. Among those species that Mohlenbrock lists as occasional to common, those adapted to moist soils tend to be from the red oak group, for example, pin oak and shingle oak. Rain soon began its signature dance on the wooden shingle roof as she lifted a wooden floor panel, revealing a shallow earthen chamber containing potatoes. Why not restore the beach with a few lorry loads of shingle, refurbish the Riverside Cafe, do something about those dreadful public lavatories and provide deckchairs? There are more recently deposited shingle beaches at the northernmost point, the Point of Ayre. Proceeding from the mouth the estuary inland, there are initially beach sands at the margin, thence shingle beach and mudflats. Show More Sentences Further south, he saw stepped plains of shingle and seashells as raised beaches showing a series of elevations. In our area, the shingle oak and red oak will produce many years before the white oak. Along a three-mile strip of sand and shingle, hundreds of grey seals lollop about. At the edge of the burn, where the path turns downward, there is a patch of shingle washed up by some spate. Slate can be made into roofing slates, a type of roof shingle, or more specifically a type of roof tile, which are installed by a slater. On the other bank, opposite our camp, a chaikhana is set on a pile of shingle. She's good enough at fixing vacuum cleaners that she should hang out her shingle and try making some money at it. Besides the tidal channel there are interfaces to the upland dunes including mudflats, sand beaches and shingle flats. At Sandwich, Kent the Seabee seawall is buried at the back of the beach under the shingle with crest level at road kerb level. I see him stand, jointlessly unfolding, pull from the holster on his hip the shingle knife, as easy as you'd pluck the fork beside your plate. At the mouth of the lough are several small rock and shingle islands which are of importance to terns. At the mouth of the lough are several small rock and shingle islands which are breeding areas for terns that feed in its shallow waters. A beach of sand, shingle and rock curves two miles between the headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme. The preferred habitat is dry ground, including scrub and gardens, and within the Isles of Scilly can be found on shingle beaches and sand dunes. Salt marshes are most commonly found in lagoons, estuaries, and on the sheltered side of shingle or sandspit. Medium-grade gravels tend to be easier to walk on than smaller grades, rounded pea shingle or large cobbles. Behnen says the state DNR has been supportive of shingle recycling in her experience. Girt Beach is mainly shingle, but with some sand and can be found along Market Street. The roof is sheathed with particleboard and covered with tarpaper and rolled asphalt shingle. Kingsand Beach is a mixture of sand and shingle which is located along The Cleave. Show More Sentences Two of those sank in deep water, and 12 more became bogged down in the soft shingle beach. I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie. Imagine an agent with a shingle on Main Street who might have to place insurance for a funeral director, a garbage collector, the local barber, he said. The town has two beaches, the first being South Beach, which is mainly shingle and stretches from Gimblet Rock across the promenade then around towards Llanbedrog. Anyway, the shingle in question was a piece of dried toast, and what sat on it was either crumbled hamburger or chipped beef in a sauce made of milk and basic seasonings. A week after we met we were married in a no-name town in the middle of the night by a justice of the peace whose shingle was hanging in front of his house. Towards the Andes, the shingle gives place to porphyry, granite, and basalt lavas, animal life becomes more abundant and vegetation more luxuriant. There were pin oak, red oak, burr oak, shingle oak and white oaks. In fact, some of the best hunting I have experienced in late October and early November has occurred near shingle oak groves, a member of the red oak group. The estuary has evolved over the centuries, the Esk and Irt were earlier separated by a shingle bank formed by the sea, dunes were formed when they eventually joined together. Examples from Classical Literature For fully an hour they went on and then bardo brought the transport down on a long shingle of sand. Here he was launched on the shingle by a billow, and washed high up on the beach. Then a hissing ensued, and a roll of shingle, and the water poured huddling and lappeting back from the chine itself had crannied. The fisherman turned away to shamble noisily over the shingle, huge booted heels crunching, toward one of the dories. On the other side of the town stretched some miles of shingle at the foot of the cliffs. It is believed that a cross between yellow oak and shingle oak produced the species known as lea oak. Differences of opinion exist concerning the value of shingle oak for commercial purposes. I was informed that the shingle oak was the only species found on the area, and on the border of the area. On somer's side was turtle, on the shingle lying thick, Which somers couldn't eat, because it always made him sick. At the same time many acres of pasture land were 319 covered by shingle, on the farm of Westover, near lymington. They went first to a Doctor mead, who displayed his shingle in a quiet street. He will come home, but unmet by his dear Or in the hall, or the dingle, Or on the shingle. If 'cedar asthma,' the shingle weaver's occupational disease, does not get him, the steel will. Sometimes they were yoked with a goose-yoke made of a shingle with a hole in it. He fancied from the patter on the shingle roof, that it was raining outside. This action takes place if a slate, a pane of glass, or a shingle is interposed between the needle and its perturber. Beside him, on the horsecloth, lay the fiddle he had made from a shingle. The crowd that had gathered on the shingle worked at the winch and ropes. Upon the shingle lounged three or four fishermen talking about sardines and shrimps. She wanted a sail for that shingle craft I whittled out for her. Show More Sentences The first fragment of their earthly possessions is a low natural dike of shingle, surmounted by a public path which runs parallel with the sea. This is the reason why shells and shingle are found in high elevations. There was the door with its rain-water barrel, there was the shingle roof. At last they reached the shingle, and he strode to her side. Before they were half-way to the shingle Roland felt that he had won. Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. He picked up a bit of shingle and drew a pencil from his pocket. The shingle oak is known as jack oak in some parts of Illinois. I could hear the lisping of the waters on the shingle far into the night. The announcement by MoDOT about its new shingles spec puts Missouri in a lead role to further the development of shingle recycling throughout the country. Producing duo Kat Hantas and Chesley Seals, who developed the script with writing team Charles and Janice Raiteri, will produce under their shingle Teek Films. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shingle? Words that rhyme with shingle What is the past tense of shingle? What is the plural of shingle? What is the adjective for shingle? What is the noun for shingle? Translations for shingle Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Shing Shines shines shiners Shiner shiner shingled shingles shingling shingly Shingon shinguard 7-letter Words Starting With s sh shi shin shing shingl