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shingle - use in sentences
Converse of object
- vegetate: Two areas of exposed vegetated shingle occur at the extremes of the barrier.
Object
- roof: Cedar Shingle Roof - As an optional extra you can chose our cedar shingled roof.
Adjective modifier
- bare: Areas of bare shingle may be important in retaining or attracting this species.
- coastal: The origin of coastal shingle varies according to location.
- loose: It would be better to describe it as loose shingle and stones.
- wooden: Above is a broad low broach spire over squared bell stage with open balustrade; all of tower covered in wooden shingles.
- fine: Fine shingle at high water, revealing sand at low water, even a few rock pools for the kids to explore.
Preposition: on
- beach: Pentium's proposed strategy involves replenishing the existing shingle on the beach with additional shingle dredged from the sea.
Modifies a noun
- spit: The shingle spit of Blakeney Point meets the coast here.
- beach: The pebbles, from which shingle beaches are made, is formed by wave action in the general process of coastal erosion.
- ridge: Sand wasp The dune systems at Holkham are formed on old shingle ridges.
- foreshore: The mud and shingle foreshore is of international nature conservation importance.
- driveway: Outside the house has a large shingle driveway and to the rear a garden about 130 ft in depth.
- shoreline: Aldeburgh's memorial to Benjamin Britten was erected on an expanse of shingle shoreline in November 2003.
Noun used with modifier
- cedar: An extension will be wooden too, roofed with cedar shingles.
- pea: Then place 8 ins of pea shingle, gravel or sand.
- roof: Building material - Traditionally oak was the main building timber in Europe including posts or beams, boards or roof shingles.
- beach: Such deep banks of raised beach shingle, vestiges from the last ice-age, are found nowhere else around the Ulster coast.
- river: Common sorrel is found in open woodland, woodland rides and edges, in maritime and river shingle, and on mountain ledges.
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