skerry

Example Sentences

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For years I coloured your world in hues you didn't recognise; never your island, always your skerry – "unable to see the romance of the thing for the thing itself".

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

North of us are two small islets and a small rock or skerry.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof

It was whiter than the foam about the skerry it was; whiter than the moon shining; whiter than ... well, as white as the painted letters on the black boards of the fishing-cobles.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

When the sun went below the sea-margin there lay before him on the skerry some mouldering linen rags and nought else.

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

O. N. sker, a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias