shingle

He asked them where they procured the redwood to renovate their shingle roof and the trio spent the rest of the morning excitedly discussing restoration techniques and comparing notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

We hung out an enormous “for sale” shingle and put just about everything on the market.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

In prison, he became devoted to working out; after his release, Mr. James hung out his shingle as a personal trainer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Sandgate Granville Parade Beach, Kent – a shingle beach used by swimmers and kayakers.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

I pulled out my pocketknife with my other hand and drove it through the shingle into the wooden wall of the cistern, pinning my makeshift piece of sygaldry under the water.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Built into the undulating terrain are brick homes, shingled cottages and a longstanding dive bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

“It’s not all open vistas of the seas and shingled cottages of the rich. It’s cold, hard, long winters, people having bean suppers at church, traditions that go back to the 1600s.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

The boys’ privy was rebuilt and newly shingled, mostly by Glenn, though Charlie wasn’t a bit grateful.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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