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Pebbly


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of pebbles; pebbled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (2) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (3) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
  • (4) The approach to the checkpoint was covered in pebbles so we had to drive very slowly.
  • (5) So while I still like my Pebble (I've set it to show when I get a call; texts are in the past), there's a bitter aftertaste.
  • (6) No one knows how many people live in the redbrick and pebble dash dwellings along the pitted streets of Ciudad Bolívar; estimates range from 700,000 to more than a million.
  • (7) A 17-year-old white boy with signs, symptoms, and family history of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum universale, Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD), developed recurrent and then persistent swelling of both lips, erythematous hyperplastic gingivae, and a pebbled tongue.
  • (8) Two men aged respectively of 65 and 28 years presented a cobblestone appearance of the gingiva and of the tongue ("pebbly tongue"), which suggested Cowden disease.
  • (9) The old warehouses that edge the small pebble beach and sapphire-blue water are still owned by the same families, but they have now been converted into a rather special hotel.
  • (10) There is a long history of people coming here to build their makeshift beach bothies along the shoreline, making use of whatever materials the waves deposit among the giant pebbles.
  • (11) These divisions might therefore rely on maternally contributed pebble function.
  • (12) If you appeared on one of the three television channels, and she did so an awful lot, be it Pebble Mill at One , TV-am or her own series, 10 million people or more would watch you at a time – huge numbers compared with today.
  • (13) Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles.
  • (14) Traeth Yr Eifl, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd Traeth Yr Eifl beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith The best walk to this pleasant pebbly beach comes up over the cliffs that frame Morfa, a National Trust owned nature reserve.
  • (15) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
  • (16) Reported is a case representing an unusual form of geophagia, in which ingestion of pebbles by a 27-year-old mentally retarded woman resulted in impaction and complete filling of the colon with pebbles.
  • (17) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
  • (18) With a thick Brooklyn accent so gravelly it sounds like he swallowed a bag of pebbles before coming on stage, he tells the crowd in Burlington later that night that he is less about change and more about revolution.
  • (19) Dotted around are piles of red and orange rocks of various sizes, from boulders to pebbles.
  • (20) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".

Rocky


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
  • (a.) Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
  • (a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (2) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
  • (3) Eight cases of snakebite occurred in seven of 11 captive Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) during June and July 1987.
  • (4) The data from this study demonstrate that false-positive results from tests for Rocky Mountain spotted fever increase with the duration of pregnancy.
  • (5) The Rocky Mountain Poison Center is a model system for regionalization.
  • (6) Clinical responses, hematology and serum chemistry values, and pathological findings were similar to those found in humans ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • (7) Seth Smith makes the final out of the A's season, which is a good luck charm for the Boston Red Sox, as Smith made the final out for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series that Boston won.
  • (8) But this year forward-thinking mainstream rappers such as A$AP Rocky, Drake and Nicki Minaj have created a fertile soil for the growth of a new kind of normal.
  • (9) Rocky: Das Musical , the stage adaptation of the much-loved Sylvester Stallone film , has opened to a rapturous critical reception in Hamburg.
  • (10) The technique allows retrospective analysis of certain organs for pathogenesis of involvement in Rocky Moutain spotted fever and offers a specific diagnostic test.
  • (11) A computer search of cancer patients enrolled in the Rocky Mountain Cancer Data System between 1973 to 1983 revealed 1,362 patients with hypopharyngeal cancer, 1,208 of whom could be staged by the American Joint Committee on cancer staging criteria.
  • (12) EU cash originally built the network of huge tanks and seawater pumps for a salmon farm on this stretch of rocky coast.
  • (13) "At the end of the day, Rocky is a love story and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
  • (14) Reported cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the United States have been increasing since 1960 and reached an all-time high of 754 cases in 1974.
  • (15) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
  • (16) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (17) RF Rapids wait 7 years and 62 minutes to regain local bragging rights Colorado Rapids ended Saturday night in third place in the West, three points behind leaders Real Salt Lake, but crucially for them, they also ended up in possession of the Rocky Mountain Cup, after coming from behind twice to tie up the game with Real Salt Lake and take the series for the first time in seven years.
  • (18) The rocky islets lie roughly equidistant between the Japanese and South Korean mainland in a stretch of water referred to as the East Sea by Koreans.
  • (19) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (20) Stallone, whose career was launched by Rocky, and who has previously sung in films such as Rhinestone , is unlikely to be cast himself.

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