How to use pebble in a sentence

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• The pebbles went ploop and sunk to the bottom of the pond.From the entry ploop
• The stream flowed chatteringly over its bed of pebbles.From the entry chatteringly
• Punding may consist of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.From the entry punding
• Seashells, round pebbles, driftwood—these natural materials are more precious to me than expensive jewels.2021, Young-Ran Lee, Create Dream Catchers, page 41. From the entry mermaids' tears
• The hard little pebble lodged in my brain is lighting up again.2008, Mark Wernham, Martin Martin's on the Other Side, Jonathan Cape, page 261. From the entry spoodge
• Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs.2006 March 25, Susmita Saha, quoting Anurag Mehra, “A different ballgame”, in Calcutta Telegraph. From the entry zorb
• Ima gonna close my eyes and you toss that there pebble in the air.2006, Dax Herrera, Edgar N Vective: Paranormal Detective, Hammerica Publishing, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry ima
• Mesembryanthemum criniflorum or Dorotheanthus bellidiformis Also known as ice plant, icicle plant, pebble plant, and fig marigold.2002, Sybille Engels, Basic Gardening: Everything You Need to Make Your Garden Grow. From the entry icicle plant
• So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road.1993, Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo. From the entry go at a good clip
• Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles.1989, Friedrich [Wilhelm] Nietzsche with Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair, David J. Parent, editors & translators, Friedrich Nietzsche on…. From the entry adoxograph
• Uncle Samuel's house was an old-fashioned one of rough stone, "splatterdashed" with fine pebbles on the outside.1910, William Dudley Foulke, The Quaker Boy, page 53. From the entry splatterdash
• The shepherd may have carried with him a bag of pebbles, one pebble for each of his sheep.2014, David Cycleback, A Brief Introduction to Ancient Counting Systems For The Non-Mathematician (page 5). From the entry one-for-one
• At the end of the day, he could match each pebble to each sheep to make sure he had them all.2014, David Cycleback, A Brief Introduction to Ancient Counting Systems For The Non-Mathematician (page 5). From the entry one-for-one
• I continue my climb along the road that once was dirt and pebbles but now is freshly paved with blackstuff.2013, Lisa Selvidge, Summer Times in the Algarve, page 130. From the entry blackstuff
• Others have very sensitive soles and can easily feel overwhelmed by what feels like a shoeful of pebbles.2008, Gordon A. Donaldson, How leaders learn: cultivating capacities for school improvement, →ISBN. From the entry shoeful
• The blond tossed some pebbles into the water.1994, Jean Echenoz, Double Jeopardy. From the entry unijambist
• Limestone pebbles are the least spherical and platiest of all gravel types, a reflection of their thin-bedded nature.1994, Kentucky Geological Survey, Report of Investigations, page 13. From the entry platiest
• Rather than a round ball as we know it today, it was a birdcage style with pebble rolling around inside.1970, Dorothy Malone Anthony, The World of Bells, page 14. From the entry crotal
• Sands and pebbles were blown swiftly around.[1965, Translations on People's Republic of China, United States Joint Publications Research Service. From the entry T'o-k'o-hsün
• Behind what looked like—but surely couldn't be—an oversized Ali Baba laundry basket dribbling earth and pebbles over the floor, peeped a save.2020, Marchell Abrahams, chapter 7, in Angels at Twenty Past, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry ali baba
• Even pebbles would have been acceptable.2005, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Chicken soup for the girl's soul, page 261. From the entry over-the-shoulder boulder holder
• They were dancing to the tune of incessant yowlings, the thudding of wooden drums and the monotonous dry rattling of pebbles in turtle-shell rattles.1996, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms. From the entry yowling
• That was the way my mind lurched and stumbled, among the sharp rs and ts, sliding over the ovoid vowels as if on pebbles.1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry ovoid
• The Tarzanists suggest that bipedalism enabled this ape to race after game while carrying weapons — in the first instance, presumably pebbles.1972, Elaine Morgan, The Descent of Woman, New York: Stein and Day, page 156. From the entry Tarzanist
• I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles.2013, D F Lewis, Horror Without Victims - Page 196. From the entry beardly
• Out of all the conversion rocks, only two of them require an added potion to make the effects stick—the pebble of plantly conversion and the pebble of godly conversion.2009, Adam Osterweil, The Lost Treasure of Talus Scree. From the entry plantly
• Removing a globed candle from its stand, she made her way across the palace and out the far door, then down the pebbled path toward the fruit orchard.2003, Robin Hardy, Nicole of Prie Mer, page 222. From the entry globed
• The 30 architects employed by Leverhulme to realise his dream had a go at everything: Tudor beams, pargetted gables, walls of brick, plaster and pebble dash.1997 October 11, Sophie Campbell, “Clean living”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry pargetted
• By then Torin had used Brinda's pebbles to buy wine, bread, and a little yardfowl meat, so he had to give her their worth in other toys.1983, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, editor, Tales by Moonlight, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry yardfowl
• Ting-ts'un Man, who lived in the watersheds in southern Shansi, continued to use pebble and flake chopping-tools, crude flakes being obtained mainly from large hornfels pebbles.1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274. From the entry Shansi
• The planes in which lie the semimajor and semimean axes of both the pebbles and quartz-feldspar aggregates coincide with those of the crystalline schistosity (Sj, which follows the bedding (S0).1970, Akademii͡a︡ nauk SSSR, Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. From the entry semimean

Meaning of pebble

1. noun A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
2. noun A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
3. noun A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.

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Questions about pebble in a sentence

How do you use pebble in a sentence?

Pebble is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The pebbles went ploop and sunk to the bottom of the pond.”

What is a short sentence with pebble?

“Even pebbles would have been acceptable.”

What does pebble mean?

Pebble means a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.