pebble

“It’s like throwing a pebble into a pond,” Stavres said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Yet as I wrangled them into my closet, something kept nagging at me like a pebble in an insole: Bernie Sanders’ eye-rolling dismissal outside the Senate elevator.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

The design also weaves Loewe’s pebble texture and On’s signature semitranslucent mesh, bound together with drawstring elastic laces for an athletic shoe with luxury flair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

“You throw a pebble in New York, you hit someone in therapy,” she laughs.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

He kicked a pebble on the sidewalk in frustration and stubbed his toe.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

The spa doesn’t offer foot massages, but there’s a 30-foot-long “jade stone walk,” with half-dome pebbles imported from Korea, on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

She carried both pebbles and crystals in her mouth to a wooden platform, where she sorted them into separate groups.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Think of this as savory frico brittle: buttery Ritz crackers, broken into uneven pebbles and hunks, tossed with Parmesan, herbs and a little fat, then baked until the cheese melts into crisp, golden clusters.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

With glasses perched on his nose, 43-year-old shopkeeper Minati Rout completes his journey by passing a final test: separating small pebbles from grains of rice.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

“We were throwing pebbles at her window in the middle of one of her lessons. Everyone got away but me. After she popped me, she made me stand in the corner and called my parents.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Cordoning off their share of terrace was a pane of pebbled glass, through which Kertész could make out the forms of vacationing neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the background.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

Susan Benson regularly walks on the pebbled beaches of Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, almost 3,000 miles away from the Stoke-on-Trent town.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2024

The skin shares features with ancient and extant reptiles, including a pebbled surface similar to crocodile skin, and hinged regions between epidermal scales that resemble skin structures in snakes and worm lizards.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

The pebbled surface is a magnet for grease and dirt, and you can pretty much forget about reaming out the gaps in the keyboard.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

He kept going back, though, and one day curiosity got the better of him when he noticed someone pebbling the ice.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

On the job, Wuthrich walks about 10 kilometers a day; because he does the texture pebbling, Callan gets in 12 kilometers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Then the pebbling process is repeated using a nozzle with a larger hole, and another scrapper nips the top of the pebbles off.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

The water for the ice is cleaned of impurities by a multi-tank reverse osmosis system; the water for the pebbling has also been de-ionized.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

There is no more violent splashing and pebbling, racing, chasing, separating. 

From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Shepperson, Claude A.