shallow
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Right fielder Jordan Walker and second baseman José Fermín both raced after Betts’ shallow fly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Dogwoods and cherry trees, which have shallow roots, will struggle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The IGN said it was the latest in a series of very shallow tremors in the area that started last Friday and were widely felt.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Its growth in St Aubin's Bay, Jersey, is normally attributed to warm, shallow conditions, combined with run-off from fields and treated water.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
And walking on the bottom of that shallow sea was a robot.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
That study also found evidence that the slab was shallower offshore than earlier estimates suggested.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
However, small growers often have shallower wells that are more vulnerable to going dry when water levels drop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The pace of construction on buildings with five or more units dropped roughly 42% in May from April, while single-family units decreased by a shallower 1.9%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Without dredging, the delta’s waters are shallower and warmer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Now his snoozing became shallower as he heard a man and a woman speaking German in pitying tones.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Currently, surveys are limited to very restricted spots, but with the help of these advanced underwater drones, scientists can extend their research from the shallowest regions to depths of 60 meters and beyond.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
Though residential investment, which includes homebuilding, likely contracted for the ninth straight quarter, the decline was probably the shallowest in 1-1/2 years.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023
They are faux bullies with no heart, only a head for the fight and no care for anything but the shallowest of victories.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2022
It’s a shame that, despite a few charming moments that show some depth, the film only offers the shallowest of dips into the ocean that is modern queer culture.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
The shallowest waves lap against mere inches of shore.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
In February last year, a tourist in the Caribbean had both hands bitten off while trying to get a photograph of a bull shark from the shallows, according to local authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
A few children splashed in the shallows as the surfers paddled out to sea, fighting the crashing waves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
When environmentalists countered with expensive government salmon hatcheries, the bass adapted, hiding in the shallows surrounding the hatcheries, where they are treated to an endless buffet of salmon fingerlings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
They frequent the shallows surrounding Friday Harbor Labs, the UW research facility located on San Juan Island.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
His uncle turned the boat and shipped the oars and they drifted over the sandy shallows until the transom grated in the sand.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Once again, the sea shallowed, and fish shimmied between crags, sea urchins perched on ridges and starfish danced on the side of the island.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2017
Instead of descending directly into the mantle, the subducting plate shallowed out and moved eastward beneath the continental plate affecting the overlying continent hundreds of miles east of the continental margin and building high mountains.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
That shows I've shallowed the path of my driver from the top to impact.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 7, 2016
“Be a good boy,” my mother said with a shallowed voice before closing the door behind her, leaving us alone.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2013
Afterwards it shallowed to 12 fathoms up to the promontory of the mountain, and off the promontory, at one league, the depth of 9 fathoms was found, the bottom clean, and all fine sand.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
The researchers cite as one example the Bangkok basin in Thailand, where groundwater levels fell in the late-twentieth century before shallowing out in the early 21at Century.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2024
Instead, the fish have been forced to lay their eggs at the base of Shasta Lake in the shallowing Sacramento River.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2022
His short-iron stats are trailing, but that's a result of how well he's shallowing the club into impact.
From Golf Digest ● May 29, 2019
But the shallowing seawater in the Baltic Sea is not the only thing worrying people in the area, says Knutsson.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2017
Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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