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shallow

[shal-oh] / ˈʃæl oʊ /




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Note the softly creased light lines and shallow drafts along the door panels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Raad was the sicker of the two - his ribs visible and his chest heaving as he took rapid, shallow breaths.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Cool promptly in shallow containers, label and refrigerate.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Researchers discovered a second, larger dog skull, along with the naturally mummified skeleton of a male dog buried in a shallow pit.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Most of the Little Shady was shallow enough to wade.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Along the way, it experienced unusually high temperatures at shallower depths before entering conditions associated with a relatively cooler type of subduction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The rock appears to have experienced unusually hot conditions at shallower depths before entering an environment with a relatively cooler temperature pattern farther down.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The shallower the earthquake, the more likely it is to have more severe effects on the surface.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

It’s creating shallower and more fragile relationships and communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

As she marched through the cloudy water, the ocean became shallower and rougher.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Currently, surveys are limited to very restricted spots, but with the help of these advanced underwater drones, scientists can extend their research from the shallowest regions to depths of 60 meters and beyond.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

The yield curve continued to 'bear steepen' to show its shallowest inversion between two and 10-year yields in more than a year and actually in positive territory between two and 20 years.

From Reuters ● Oct. 19, 2023

This water sits in some of the state's shallowest and most remote aquifers, where it has accreted over thousands of years beneath chalk-white valleys.

From Salon ● May 7, 2023

It’s a shame that, despite a few charming moments that show some depth, the film only offers the shallowest of dips into the ocean that is modern queer culture.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022

The shallowest waves lap against mere inches of shore.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"So the fish don't swim up to the shallows."

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Divers tied stone weights around their ankles and held their breath as they sank to the bottom of the shallows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Evie first saw the pale axolotl nestled in the rocks after lifting up a discarded mat in the shallows of the River Ogmore.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

They frequent the shallows surrounding Friday Harbor Labs, the UW research facility located on San Juan Island.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Below the northern slopes, Roz was still hard at work in the shallows.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Once again, the sea shallowed, and fish shimmied between crags, sea urchins perched on ridges and starfish danced on the side of the island.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2017

Instead of descending directly into the mantle, the subducting plate shallowed out and moved eastward beneath the continental plate affecting the overlying continent hundreds of miles east of the continental margin and building high mountains.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

That shows I've shallowed the path of my driver from the top to impact.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 7, 2016

“Be a good boy,” my mother said with a shallowed voice before closing the door behind her, leaving us alone.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2013

This boundary river on the northern border of Texas was a terror to trail drovers, but on our reaching it, it had shallowed down, the flow of water following several small channels.

From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

The researchers cite as one example the Bangkok basin in Thailand, where groundwater levels fell in the late-twentieth century before shallowing out in the early 21at Century.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2024

Instead, the fish have been forced to lay their eggs at the base of Shasta Lake in the shallowing Sacramento River.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2022

Other times, I get too steep with my swing. and I can't get the ball to do what I want, so I work on shallowing my angle of attack.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 19, 2019

But the shallowing seawater in the Baltic Sea is not the only thing worrying people in the area, says Knutsson.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2017

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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