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• The upper reaches of this bay are not sailable; there are too many shoals and no dredged channel.From the entry sailable
• I told her about grabbling—reaching under rocks at the shoals of the river and pulling out catfish.1994, Clyde Bolton, chapter 1, in The Lost Sunshine, Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, page 12. From the entry grabble
• The shoals and reefs of Zhongsha (or the Macclesfield Bank) do not emerge even at low water.1987, Donald E. Weatherbee, “The South China Sea: From Zone of Conflict to Zone of Peace?”, in Lawrence E. Grinter, Young Whan Kihl…. From the entry Zhongsha
• There are also shoals in the neighborhood which offer a scenic spot for touring and sea-bathing.1982, 實用中英百科手册 [Practical Chinese English Encyclopedic Handbook], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1176. From the entry Huhsi
• The 76-km-long Hsiling Gorge, from Hsianghsi in Tzukuei County to Nantsinkuan, was noted for its treacherous shoals.1977, “The Three Gorges”, in China Pictorial, number 9, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1. From the entry Tzukuei
• Redeyes inhabit clear-water streams with an abundance of shoals and are usually confined to headwater sections.1970 April, A. J. McClane, “The Sunfish Family”, in Clare Conley, editor, Field and Stream, volume LXXIV, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Holt…. From the entry redeye
• It is composed of a large group of islands, islets, shoals, and reefs.1963 March 28 [1962], Ch'en Tung-k'ang (7115 2767 1660) [陳棟康], “Our Country's South Sea Archipelagoes”, in Wu Han (0702 2498) [吳晗]…. From the entry Hsi-sha
• All the Sea Islands have what are called dividings, shoal areas behind the barrier islands where the tides meet and divide.2005, Mary R. Bullard, Cumberland Island: A History, page 5. From the entry dividings
• The Chungsha Islands are shoals submerged by the sea.1974, Jerome A. Cohen, Hungdah Chiu, People's China and International Law: A Documentary Study, volume 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton…. From the entry Chungsha
• The Macclesfield Bank (Chungsha ch’ün-tao) consists of 24 shoals, 3 reefs and 2 banks, all of which are under water.1974, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, “Fact Sheet from Embassy of the Republic of Viet-Nam Information Office…. From the entry Chungsha
• And while remembering, look upward toward the chosen six who have guided our Sophomore steamboat through the reefs and shoals.1939, Legend, Fort Wayne, Ind.: North Side High School, page 63. From the entry adviseress
• Tucked inconspicuously away behind the shoal of darkness that hung in those gloomy corners, the silhouetted enigma was ogling him in halcyon silence.2007, Ramon Elmerito Gatchalian, A Supernatural Threat, page 9. From the entry enigma
• Taiwan, like mainland China, lays claim to 53 rocks, shoals and reefs in the South China Sea known as the Spratly Islands.1994 July, Robert Storey, “Facts about Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13. From the entry Spratlys
• As these birds feed on fish, the fishermen are sure to get to the site of large shoals by following the direction of their flight.1976, Peking Review, volume 19, →OCLC, page 23, column 2. From the entry tung
• A shoal, with general depths of less than 3 fathoms, extends about 1 ½ miles southward of the entire south shore of Lieh Hsü.1959, Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, 6th edition, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 191. From the entry Lieh Hsü
• There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 52”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry transfix
• The convergent trend of sediment transport was more evident in the tidal flats and shoals between Huangcuo and Qianpu, than between Tu Island and Binlang Island.2022 September, Dongyi Li, Yonghang Xu, Liang Wang, Aijun Wang, Zhikun Lai, “Erosion and siltation dynamics in an urban-influenced coastal…. From the entry Binlang
• Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore.2000, Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta, page 38. From the entry rip
• A set netter is constantly watching the river downstream from his net for the arrival of shoals and lifting it when the fish are safely inside.1984, R. M. McDowall, The New Zealand Whitebait Book, page 144. From the entry set netter
• It’s our job to keep watch on the sea for’ard and on both beams for a fin, or for shoal fish where it’s likely a swordie will be.1939, Arthur W[illiam] Upfield, “‘Fish-Oh!’”, in The Mystery of Swordfish Reef, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Paperback Fiction, published…. From the entry swordie
• Barely thirty-four miles in circumference, the shoal covers an area of about sixty square miles while only one of its land features, South Rock, is above water at high tide.2015, Peter Navarro, “A Hungry Cow's Tongue in the South China Sea”, in Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World…. From the entry South Rock

Meaning of shoal

1. adjective Shallow.
2. noun A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
3. noun A shallow in a body of water.

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How do you use shoal in a sentence?

Shoal is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “The colour of the water shows where it shoals.”

What is a short sentence with shoal?

“Shoals of tourists”

What does shoal mean?

Shoal means shallow.