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 pebble grain Thom Browne shoulder bag, though, was no size comparison to the 10-foot John Baldessari sculpture she stood in front of.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

Zara picked up a pebble and threw it far over everyone’s heads, into Not-School.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

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

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

From dawn, crowds of pilgrims gathered in the valley of Mina, southeast of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, to throw pebbles at concrete pillars symbolising the devil.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

That pressure trapped large amounts of dust, allowing small clumps known as pebbles to collect there.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

It felt like there were pebbles in my throat.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

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

For curling, ice sheets need a pebbled texture - this is where the surface is sprayed with water so the droplets freeze.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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

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

Luckily, Abel was pitched into a pebbled shallow and managed to scramble ashore, where he stood and watched his jacket and the wreck of his ship go the way of the river.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

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

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

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

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