Small worn stones and pebbles on the shore

Usage examples of shingle.

It would have been easy to buy precut framing, just as it would to get already-made roof shingles, but the fine details kept me anchored.

The building that Shareef Thomas was in turned out to be two-storied, with faded gray shingles and some broken windows.

Green sedges, cliff ferns, and tufts of white starwort grew in sheltered high places, while some deeply shadowed stretches of shingle above the tide-line were still heaped with slow-melting slabs of ice driven ashore by the winter westerlies.

Beneath me passed a broad gray thoroughfare, heavy with traffic, then a block of flat-roofed garages, a narrow street, a slab of shingle, a curve of the Thames, a wharf and steelyard, another street.

Next to it was a green deck representing forest wealth: trees to be sold as masts to shipbuilders in Waterholm, maples to be tapped for syrup, horn-beams for treenails, cedars for shingles, and more.

Shingles can lead to postherpetic neuralgia, a nasty and painful reaction, and when PHN attacks the trigeminal nerve, the resulting agonies can be excruciating, and those suffering from it often commit suicide.

The drumming upon the shingle roof spanning the unceiled room was loud and incessant.

It was a long low room, the walls made of pine slabs stuck upright, and the crevices filled up with clay held together by wattles about six inches apart, with a shingled roof, unceiled, and a clay-floor well beaten down by the tread of many feet.

It was a little rental house, one story and no basement, in this country where most houses had basements or root cellars, and it was faded to a dim green with a gray shingled roof and even though they knew she was inside it looked empty and unlived in.

This sleek, shingled, befurred city madam with her soft white face and casual eyes!

Then the entire house blows outward and upward, shingles flying, hunks of wood lofted into the air and then returning to earth, something that looks like a quilt twisting lazily in the air like a magic carpet as debris rattle to the ground in a thudding, contrapuntal drum roll.

He thought of the half-eaten face and the slashed throat, the Boeotian, squirming on the shingle as the dancer stepped round him, of his terrible failure to understand who must win that fight.

Contemptuous eyewitnesses described her very well as looking like a tin can on a shingle or a cheesebox on a raft.

The sun shone gloriously and brightened the hill-girdled valley in which Odate stands into positive beauty, with the narrow river flinging its bright waters over green and red shingle, lighting it up in glints among the conical hills, some richly wooded with coniferae, and others merely covered with scrub, which were tumbled about in picturesque confusion.

A short time later, the carriage drew up before a long, dogtrot cabin built of gray cypress logs with cypress shingles on the roof and a mud-daub chimney at each end pouring forth gray plumes of smoke.