shingle
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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
Its landscapes include grasslands, lagoons, heathland and vegetated shingle, which supports a range of creatures, flora and fauna - not just birds.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
His memories alight on his father, Wheeler, an attorney who turned down a high-paying job in Chicago to hang out his shingle in Port William.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Thor was carrying them on his back: boat, oars, Hymir, and whales, carrying them along the shingle at the edge of the sea.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
The buildings and shingled cottages are bright pastel, the waterfront dotted with cafes and patio umbrellas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Likewise, Artham knew that packaging was key to mimicking the full experience, which is why Hooray Foods' bacon is shingled across an L-board pack.
From Salon ● May 24, 2022
Early in the morning though it was, the tar beneath the shingled roof was beginning to bubble in the hot July sun.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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