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a. Pertaining to or resembling shale. alt. Pertaining to or resembling shale.
Usage examples of "shaley".
When Shaley came into his office, Sadie, his secretary, was tapping away briskly on the typewriter with glossy, pink-nailed fingers.
He kept shuffling after Shaley, one hunched shoulder pushed forward, sidling a little.
Gorjon got too close, and Shaley began to hit him again, putting everything he had in each blow.
He got Shaley by the neck, loosely, and began to pound his head on the floor slowly and methodically, chuckling gleefully to himself.
Her arms flailing upward, her tiny feet lifting to their toes, then losing their tenuous grip upon the shaley rock-the maw of the abyss seemed to reach for her.
Beyond, the alkaline, shaley land shimmered in the level light of the late afternoon sun.
Beyond, the alkaline, shaley land shimmered in the level light of the late-afternoon sun.
Back we go, avalanching rocks as we scramble up the shaley streambed and arrive at the embankment where we had seen an ear of corn.
I threw in a few sidelights and wrote some words to be tapped to Shaley, the city editor.
In addition to Doan and Carstairs, he created such series sleuths as Ben Shaley, Doc Flame, Bail Bond Dodd, the fudge, Jim Daniels, and another brilliantly screwball private eye, Max Latin.
The sun was behind us and made our three shadows stretch out long on the shaley trail.
As my back was turned to him, in an endeavour to speak some words to Nelly that might soothe her into calmness, she, who was looking after him, like one fascinated with terror, saw him take a sharp, shaley stone, and aim it at me.
He jumped into the air and, upon landing, missed his footing on the shaley surface and fell arse over tip down the mountain, coming to a halt just short of a two-hundred-foot drop.