“The boy was standing in the shallow of the river and a fishing net was in his hands.”

“Perhaps the mawkishness and jingoism of the popular culture prevailing in those days is as distasteful as the shallowness of our own.”

“Undoubtedly, this phenomenon is yet another indication of the glitziness, superficiality and shallowness, which characterizes modern society.”

“Nicely written sentences and a roller-coaster ending do not compensate for shallowness of meaning and lazy characterisation.”

“Fish sometimes come into the shallows at dusk.”

“But currently at Hanauma Bay, the silvery aholehole swarm in the shallows all day, darting around human legs to catch free food.”

“On rocky rummages in the shallows you might spy damsel fish, red mullet, painted combers and rainbow wrasse before they dart off.”