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Sentence Examples There were shoals of grunt and goatfish sheltering in the shadow of our boat. Dense shoals of red and silver bigeye, soldierfish and yellow and blue-striped snapper cover the reef. The fishermen were after pike, and the pike will be after the shoals of roach. Local anglers are having a ball as shoals of mackerel still abound in the bay. Diving both areas is fairly easy and enjoyable, and always features huge shoals of fish. Apparently this wreck sometimes has huge shoals of juvenile fish on it, but not today. Match catches also reveal some big shoals of bream all along the river, but particularly in the lower reaches. Small shoals of barracuda were regular inhabitants of this site, but these too failed to appear. The fish life at Karan was rich, with big shoals of sweetlips and angelfish swimming together. Last year they found some big shoals of bream below Kings Lawn and really hammered them out. Large shoals of pollack can quickly deplete the food supply on one wreck then move en masse to another. Sometimes you'll find shoals of roach and perch in streams running out into the bays. Large shoals of pollack are often found gathered at the seaward end of the bay. We moved away from the slope to an astonishing Magic Rock covered in cleaning shrimp and crowned with shoals of glassy sweepers. Whales and dolphins have followed the herring and sprat shoals into the harbour. On a strongly running tide, fishing these shoals can be reminiscent of fishing the tumbling waters in a mountain stream. The American ship stood in as close to the shoals as she dared and then fired a shot across the steamer's bow. It is nonetheless a beautiful shallow reef with huge areas of elk and staghorn coral sheltering shoals of grunt, snapper and goatfish. Large boulderstones are scattered over the beach, and sometimes form shoals as far as five miles from shore. The large ferox trout patrol the deeps and there are shoals of smaller trout in the deeps also. Show More Sentences The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish. In these turbulent waters, the American Navy navigates the political shoals and does what it does best. They have been doing so for years, of course, shrewdly navigating the political shoals. The sand forming these two shoals would ordinarily have been deposited on the East Beach during its eastward drift. With its shoals and proximity to nearby shipping lanes, the Tortugas are a natural ship trap. Of course, an unintended consequence of these jetties was that they created offshore shoals and sandbars that tended to magnify the waves here. The chatter sounds are generally heard in and around sandy bottom areas such as shoals and beaches. They've navigated their way through narrow channels and around dangerous shoals using the same buoys and other navigational aids. These offer information about shifting shoals, sandbars and such that can be critical for boaters and productive for fishers. The seabed images were used by the Navy in deciding which areas of shoals and reef needed careful investigations using the ship's echosounder. Mussels in unimaginable numbers once paved the shallow shoals of many rivers and provided an easily accessible food supply. But thanks for reminding me of the Marines and thereby reminding me that even the US Navy uses a local pilot when navigating unfamiliar shoals. With great dexterousness, he traded his way through the political shoals and created a force. He knows polls and districts and congressional races the way a sea-fisherman knows tides and currents and shoals. Soft corals and gorgonians reach out from the overhanging sides, while shoals of fish swirl in the shade. A smaller and more spread-out shoal of yellow-tail snappers cruise in and out, the dense shoals of saupe and bream parting to let them through. It never unnerved me, the natural blueness of his irises, so like the color of the water off the shoals of Bahamas. Groups such as silversides, herrings and anchovies often congregate in feeding shoals numbering in the millions. We passed small shoals of bigeye snapper, masked angelfish and a couple of colourful groupers on our way to a garden of gorgonians. Reports said very big shoals of pilchard were found along the Angolan coast north of the Kunene river mouth. Show More Sentences The following day, July 31, a rested, healthier crew experienced slow upstream travel through difficult shoals and rapids. Cold water is what keeps the Gulf Stream moving up the Atlantic coast and northeastward after it ricochets off the shoals under Cape Hatteras. Lincoln's status as a great patenter, incidentally, stems from a single patent for a device for lifting riverboats over shoals. Shoaling barracuda with an escort of silky sharks, masked butterflyfish, masked pufferfish and the remnants of the snapper shoals. Hundreds of tiny damselfishes dart around in shoals, finning their swift way through sunlit waters. Small rudd can often be seen patrolling in huge shoals picking off any invertebrates in the water column. It has the habit of swimming in small shoals around patches of flotsam, or floating logs, and is attracted by rafts or drifting boats. In summer, great shoals of gamefish arrive, including giant kingfish, barracuda, sailfish and bonito. Members of bird flocks and fish shoals check for predators less often and spend less time hiding in shelters than do solitary individuals. Divers can still explore coral reefs and swim with shoals of fish and even sharks. Passing over the ship's holds I look down upon sedate shoals of crescent-tailed bigeyes, their reflective tapetums looking like silver cataracts. The shallowest shoals in the area had been reported at 37 metres, and depths earlier the same day had been between 50 metres and 300 metres. The thought of coral reefs conjures images of brightly coloured shoals and huge schools of exotic fish. A streamlined fish, the mackerel is designed for fast swimming in large shoals. The mast rose up behind it, pointing to the sun above and masked only by dense shoals of damselfish, a fantastic sight. Trout in particular spawn in the fall and can be found in deep water at this time. You can find them on bars, shoals, rocks and fingers. Before the current intifada began in 2000, shoals of tourists made it difficult to move in these lanes. Incoming tides also bring at certain times of the year shoals of mackerel and bass, dolphins, basking sharks and giant jellyfish. We joined the swarming shoals of surgeon, basslet, butterfly fish, damsel fish, fusiliers and some bemused jack fish. The South African sardine, also known as the pilchard, is usually found in huge shoals in the upper layers of the ocean. Show More Sentences Inside, I find shoals of cardinalfish, then on the hull some nosy red pigfish and resting goatfish. At night, clupeoid shoals rose in the water column and became more dispersed. Turtles, large shoals of fish and pelagics including hammerhead, sharks, manta rays and whale sharks are often encountered. The small landing craft bringing men and supplies from ship to shore took a beating from the shoals and rocks, with many suffering severe damage. Four of the five populations were growing in faulted crevices of bedrock associated with shoals. Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear. This lighted bell buoy is of the type widely used in the 20th century to mark shoals in coastal waters along the East Coast of the United States. Only divers knew that these were actually big shoals of milkfish that cruised off-shore. The cod form large shoals close to the sea bed where the eggs and milt are released. Huge shoals of orange anthias sway in and out of the colourful soft corals while honeycomb moray eels peek out from holes in the coral gap. Buckshot disturbed the river's surface like panicky shoals of fish. Smaller shoals of zooplanktivores, such as rabbitfishes and the juvenile forms of many other reef species, are also found hovering above and around coral reefs. There were more stretches through wilderness and spotting shoals of fish, cormorants, cranes, owls, spoonbills, kingfishers, woodpeckers, and a few snakes. Under boulders live other fish, including large ling and many codling, while above the kelp line pollack shoals can cloud the brightness on a sunny day. As the day warms up the rudd are cruising the surface in enormous shoals. A small shoal of barracuda patrol a saddle in the ridge, but there are not the enormous shoals of barracuda or trevally to be found at Richelieu Rock. In the birthplace of civilization, we have again run aground on the rocky shoals of nationalism, this time augmented by a religious fervor that increases the danger. Oregon's lighthouses were all but inaccessible when they were built in the 19th century, near shoals and sandbars, treacherous offshore rocks and reefs. Reef life includes batfish, yellowfin tuna and teeming shoals of smaller fish, but divers might also encounter stingrays, turtles, sharks, groupers, snappers and whale sharks. Unfortunately the visibility is a milky 5m, though this doesn't detract from the huge shoals of snapper and the angelfish, batfish and giant grouper that call this oasis home. Show More Sentences Hanging around between the pylons were huge shoals of fish, seemingly unfazed by our presence, happy to let us swim by and follow us en masse with one beady eye. As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals. Huge dense shoals of fish cover the forward quarter of the wreck. The popular take-away and restaurant in Chippenham has been short-listed for the area title of the contest, after shoals of nominations from its customers. They ride the ship wakes for miles as they pass over shallow shoals. The Dolomite depositional system is composed of a superficial plateau with shoals and ponds, limiting a submerged and protected inner shelf environment in the western area. At the surface there was nothing but rolling shoals of dirty brown water. Today the shoals are flooded by back water from the Joe Wheeler Dam. However, some of the elementary cycles may have been influenced by intrinsic processes such as local shifting of sand shoals due to wave reworking. Although the Clyde was broad, until the early 19th century shoals prevented sea-going ships from sailing higher than Port Glasgow some twenty miles downstream. The US is entering uncharted waters, which hide shoals that could cause its economy to sink into a recession and with it stocks and shares plummeting into the deep. Unfortunately, my spiritual search soon ran aground on the shoals of alcoholism, and would remain marooned there until May, 1993, when I got sober. But with deficits rising and businesses anxious for new tax breaks, Congress will first have to navigate the treacherous shoals of domestic politics. We also started boiling up the maize and storing this in huge bins ready for piling into the swims in front of the site to get the shoals of fish munching. Rough season conceal the shoals of small fry upon which they survive. At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head, untangling the fishing line, scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface. Out in the Atlantic, vast Japanese factory ships work nonstop, using modern sonar detection to spot the tuna shoals they sweep the ocean clean of fish. Due to the high density of the shoals, the sardine run offers an ideal opportunity for various cold-water predators that follow the sardines on their northward migration. In late spring, when the herring disappear from the shallows, and head off to sea, the pike have to satisfy their appetites with the vast shoals of the resident coarse fish. I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all. Show More Sentences During a recent dive on her there were so many juvenile fish that the wreck resembled one of those Red Sea wrecks surrounded by shoals of glassfish. Cape Brett, where you find the famous Hole in the Rock, is a nice scenic dive with huge shoals of demoiselles, blue maomao, koheru and the odd eagle ray. Every inch is taken up by plants and animals in a riot of colour, a living mosaic over which patrol vividly coloured wrasse and dense shoals of demoiselles and blue maomao. The waters are rich in tropical marine life, such as the spiny globefish, black coral and shoals of black sea bream. The ship's shallow draft was intended to help her traverse the shoals of the Arctic straits. Those sediments that instead moved south created the islands and shoals of Monomoy. Throughout the systems there are a number of shoals and good wadeable water that hold many fish. Fishermen looked for feeding tern flocks, since the birds could lead them to fish shoals. The Dutch River was difficult to navigate, made more hazardous by shoals, three awkward bridges, and low water levels at neap tides. By growth of these hooks new shoals arise such as the Noorder and Zuiderhaaks. This effort was foiled by sandy shoals, and the Halve Maen continued north. Over time, shoals arose, which ultimately were only covered by infrequent storm floods. It now amounts to only a chain of limestone shoals remaining above sea level. Adults frequent inshore bays, lagoons and shoals with lush seagrass meadows. Although waters were kept calm by an offshore reef, the anchorage area was littered with shoals. The majority of tidal inlets on longshore drift shores accumulate sediment in flood and ebb shoals. But Sofala's harbor was marred by a long moving sandbank and hazardous shoals, making it quite unsuitable as a stop for the India armadas. At the critical moment Medina Sidonia sent reinforcements south and ordered the Armada back to open sea to avoid The Owers shoals. It consists primarily of the salt waters of the Oosterschelde, but also includes mud flats, meadows, and shoals. A dynamic drift ice cover forms in the middle of the gulf and elsewhere off the shores, islands and shoals. Show More Sentences During the winter months grey seals can be seen hauled out on rocks, islands, and shoals not far from shore, occasionally coming ashore to rest. Over the years, as the shoals gradually shift, the erosion may be redirected to attack different parts of the shore. Fish are abundant in the area, and shoals of sardines rise to the surface during the feeding times of larger fish. So too did the economic and human losses inflicted by snags, shoals, boiler explosions, and human error. However, when the storm blew up, many of the severely damaged ships sank or ran aground on the shoals. It also supports the world's largest colony of rare rocky shoals spider lilies. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Scores of dolphins, shoals of barracuda and basking fur seals provide a bonus as a graceful mollymawk, a small albatross, glides by. Although it sounds like a mouthwash, Dentex is actually a famously tasty fish caught in shoals in the deep-blue waters off Dubrovnik. During the night eight French ships managed to do what Soleil Royal had failed to do, to navigate through the shoals to the safety of the open sea, and escape to Rochefort. Treacherously fast waters, light winds alternating with unpredictably violent gusts, and treacherous shoals and rocks made this cape particularly dangerous. For the next 40 minutes I might as well have been on the moon as I entered an alien but beautiful world with sparkling shoals of fish and friendly octopii. For the next 30 minutes I might as well have been on the moon as I entered an alien but beautiful world with sparkling shoals of fish and friendly octopii. Fishermen have traditionally used seabirds as indicators of both fish shoals, underwater banks that might indicate fish stocks, and of potential landfall. The treacherous waters off the coast of the Outer Banks is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, Over 600 ships wrecked here as victims of shallow shoals, storms, and war. The connection is not altogether clear, but mackerel spawn enthusiastically in shoals near the coast, and medieval ideas on animal procreation were creative. In 1768 John Golborne advised the narrowing of the river and the increasing of the scour by the construction of rubble jetties and the dredging of sandbanks and shoals. Tidal flats and shoals are places that sometimes dry because of the tide. The United States' southeast coast, especially the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, has a long history of shipwrecks due to its many shoals and reefs. The HQA shows habitat diversity in relation to natural characteristics, such as tree roots, various shoals, vegetation structure, macrophyte diversity. Show More Sentences Nesting turtles, giant robber crabs and seabirds inhabit the islands, and towers of coral rise from the deep lagoons providing habitat for dense shoals of fish. The island of Texel was originally made up of two islands, Texel proper to the south and Eierland to the northeast, which were connected by shoals. The Heeren XVII sent the ships' masters off with extensive instructions on the route to be navigated, prevailing winds, currents, shoals and landmarks. Basque vessels had been fishing cod shoals off Newfoundland's coasts since the beginning of the 16th century, and their crews used the natural harbour at Placentia. Examples from Classical Literature That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine day, and these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again. The Maas is encumbered with shoals, and the navigation is difficult for a stranger. There were shoals of small cod-fish in the voe, and Loki had no difficulty in filling his most capacious maw. They have the fjord so near them, where the shoals of wild fishes pass in and out. Small fish, too, were in such vast shoals in the shallows that the bongo appeared in one place to cut through them. That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine day, and these shoals of rainbow fish have not enraptured me again. He did not peril his prows beyond the shoals which environed the entrance to his harborage. The silver salmon and blue-backs run in separate shoals, and their respective names show the difference between them. Depth curves if clearly shown are a great aid in interpreting the hydrography and making plain the shoals and passages. He eyed a school of minnows that were swimming in the shoals and looked again at his bobber. This, together with the indraught of the lagoon, and of the shoals before it, causeth strong ripplings and whirlpools. At last word came that the sponger had struck on the nearby shoals. Do you mean, sir, in the dark amongst the lot of all them islands and reefs and shoals? It owes its name to the immense shoals of salmon which ascend it in the months of September and October. Walk on water with green sea turtles, sharks and shoals of tropical reef fish swimming alongside, above you and even beneath your feet. There was no one to check me up on the working out of my observations, nor with whom I could advise in the ticklish darkness among uncharted reefs and shoals. I call them thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. We arrived when the dry season was beginning so that, far from being impassibly flooded, the river's depths alternated with shoals that only local pilots could anticipate. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shoals? Words that rhyme with shoals What is the adverb for shoals? What is the adjective for shoals? What is the noun for shoals? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words shoaling shoaled shoal Shoah shoah SHO shoaly shoat shoats shochet shochu shock 6-letter Words Starting With s sh sho shoa shoal