shingle
Example Sentences
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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
Meanwhile, having failed to stop the taxi boat launch on the shingle beach at Audresselles, Colonel Alary was not yet ready to give up either.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025
By that time, Emmett’s longtime shingle Emmett/Furla Oasis had collapsed under the weight of millions of dollars of debt to former financiers and co-producers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025
To help protect homes, researchers and fire officials recommend taking steps to fire-proof properties, such as installing fire-resistant shingle roofs and maintaining “defensible space” to prevent flying embers from igniting houses and businesses.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025
I walk quickly along the shingle, past the beach huts, so pretty in daylight but now sinister, each one of them a hiding place.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
