pebble

Landing on a pebble beach, the Normans fortify Hastings, ravage the countryside, and feast on stolen meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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

"Last night isn't a pebble, it is not even a grain of sand. It goes against the whole ethos of why VAR was introduced."

From BBC ● May 14, 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

The shape adjusted its hair, and two pale, pebble eyes regarded me through the gloom.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Fans were asked not to leave socks on the mock grave, made of pebbles with messages written on them, because the beach was environmentally sensitive.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

The stream is best—swiftly running, not deep, filled with pebbles, boulders, and life.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

She told a local coordinator she believed the 37th image -- showing the pale, swollen face of a man lying on a pebbled riverbed -- was her childhood best friend.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

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, which belonged to an early species of Paleozoic reptile, has a pebbled surface and most closely resembles crocodile skin.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

Finn’s skin went cold and pebbled all over.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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