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

Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The skerry was wet, as if the sea had only recently been flowing over it, and on it he saw a pale girl with such lovely eyes.

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

Shortly afterwards he was again lying on the skerry, and the lass smiled so blithely; she bent over him and said, "It is I, Eilert."

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