noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shingle/pebble/pebbly beach (= covered with very small stones )
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Both resorts have small shingle beaches.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bank
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We walked along the shingle bank - and it was then the blizzard hit us.
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More than 80 of these include mudflats, sand dunes, salt marshes and shingle banks .
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A nine-mile bleak shingle bank - growing each year - separating Orford from the sea.
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Below Dalrachney the river levels out into long, steady-flowing, deep pools, interspersed by rough, shallow, shingle banks .
beach
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The place fascinated me - narrow country roads, little lost villages, great shingle beaches and lonely salt marshes.
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The concealed flakes must have reminded him of hunting for food on a shingle beach .
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Taking courage in both hands, I began to steer the fish towards the shingle beach .
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On the shingle beach , where the burnet rose grows, ringed plovers incubate eggs in shallow scrapes.
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There is a shingle beach in the town, with bathing facilities.
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The tide was high, he could hear the sound of waves on the shingle beach .
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Bardolino is just five minutes by local bus from Garda and the shingle beaches are a ten minute walk from the village.
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Colourful parasols dot its fine shingle beach and, inland, rolling rural landscapes await those who like to explore.
■ VERB
hang
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Elsewhere anyone was at liberty to hang up a shingle and go into practice as a physician.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All new shingle roofs need sun to melt the tar between the layers and make them stick together.
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All the houses are wooden shingle , window boxes overflowing with wooden flowers on every balcony and window ledge.
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It had two intact stone chimneys, green shingles, a boarded-up door, window frames with no windows.
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The shingles were red and purple; some were the size of shirt buttons, some the size of chestnuts.
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The place fascinated me - narrow country roads, little lost villages, great shingle beaches and lonely salt marshes.
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The tide was high, he could hear the sound of waves on the shingle beach.
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The trapped water pools and backs up under the shingles, where it can leak into the house.
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They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia.