shoals
Example Sentences
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Bartram's and Altamaha bass are native to flowing river systems, where they typically inhabit pools and fast-moving areas near rocky shoals.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 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
At first, Carter thought he could navigate the shoals of their contradictory advice.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 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
