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shingle

[shing-guhl] / ˈʃɪŋ gəl /








NOUN
tile
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Old stone walls near the shoreline were flattened, while the Exmoor bay's shingle ridge was breached and moved inland by around 90 metres, creating a salt marsh which was left to its natural course.

From BBC May 4, 2026

For “Over Your Dead Body,” he teams with producer David Leitch, whose 87North shingle specializes in R-rated action-comedies like “Nobody” and “Violent Night.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

Wonder Project, the shingle behind hit TV series ‘House of David,’ is among a wave of Hollywood production companies bringing ‘faith programming’ into the 21st century.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2026

My family lived in East Highland Park, Va., just outside of Richmond, in an 800-square-foot house clad in gray asphalt shingle siding.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

A few feet of water rippled near the bottom, far below where my knife pinned a charred shingle to the wall.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Forty minutes east of Absolem, I spotted the shingled barn of Bailey’s Orchard, where 79-year-old farmer Rodney Bailey tends dozens of obscure apple varieties including King David, Chenango Strawberry and Black Gilliflower.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

When you imagine a typical American family home, you probably picture something like John Williamson and Sue Spaziani’s house, with its shingled roof and wraparound porch.

From Slate Oct. 17, 2024

But sometime over the last few weeks, one snowy owl in particular made a surprise appearance in noticeably less harsh terrain — the shingled roofs and white chimneys of suburban Southern California.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2022

It is a dish of shingled, slow-cooked potatoes pressed into a terrine, then sliced and fried.

From Salon Nov. 28, 2021

Once the fire broke through the circle of engines, it pushed out fists of flame that ate up clapboard siding, shingled roofs, fences, trees, outhouses, and chicken coops.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

For presentation, gingerly prop the tofu against the pork, shingling it out slightly.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

Back east on Cape Cod, where once upon a time my shingling trade migrated, the occasional red cedar roof comes along in the wealthiest of ocean-view neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times Mar. 8, 2024

Top each with two thin slices of ham and the cucumbers, shingling the cucumbers neatly on top of each sandwich.

From Washington Post Oct. 13, 2022

Using shingling, we transformed the text of articles in both datasets into a list of tokens, and then turned the list of tokens into a list of n-token sequences called “shingles.”

From New York Times Jan. 5, 1458

He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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