Sentence Examples

1. The wooden shingle clunked in its metal frame as the wind sent it flapping.
2. Only the surge and suck of surf sweeping the shingle shore of the island known as Dachaigh spoiled the silence.
3. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
4. Perched on a modest cliff, our family retreat is a grand specimen of a shingle style summer cottage with one of the broadest views of the Atlantic.
5. It astonished me to learn that they actually slid down the shingle faces for fun.
6. It was no seal, no strayed animal of any sort it was long and dark, with a drag mark where something had hauled itself out of the sea and up to the edge of the shingle.
7. One of the mountain peaks had broken off at some point in time and massive slips of shingle fanned down its sides.
8. Twice waves thundered in, completely covering the women, but they persevered, slithering on the bands of shingle between the sand until the boats were tossing on the choppy water.
9. As usual, she ran fast, enjoying the sensation of the wind in her hair and the shifting crunch of the shingle beneath her bare feet when she reached the beach.
10. At last, the wooden shingle appeared, announcing they had arrived at their destination.