shoals
Example Sentences
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But based on oral arguments, I think this may be yet another case that crashed into the shoals of Alabama’s terrible lawyering.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
So after a rewrite, Mary Richards launches her best life from the shoals of a broken engagement instead.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
“It’s clear that he has navigated the fraught shoals of the bureaucratic politics of the administration effectively. He hasn’t ticked off anybody who matters, and that’s a lot by itself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Calm captains of the ship of state struggle to navigate the world system’s waves and shoals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
