Sample sentences for SHOAL - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
run aground on a shoal

Definition

an area of shallow water — especially a navigation hazard, and often caused by a deposit of sand (sandbank)

shoals = sandbanks or other stretches of shallow water

Other Uses (with this meaning)

shoals = (used figuratively) a sandbank or other stretch of shallow water (that is dangerous to ships)

shoals = sandbanks or other stretches of shallow water

Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach,
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

shoals = stretches of shallow water

One by one, I laid out the dangers he must avoid, the shoals, the barbarous islands, the Sirens, those birds with women's heads who lure men to their death with song.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

shoals = areas of shallow water

It is nice at high water, but when the tide is out it shoals away to nothing, and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between banks of sand, with rocks here and there.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

shoals = becomes shallow

"These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds—regular dead-beats. There, now we're over the worst of it, you can stand the rest middling easy."
It jolted her up like everything, of course; but I was over the shoal water now, so I went right along,
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

shoal = shallow

dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

shoal = shallower part

At about nine o'clock next morning three lonely figures might have been seen picking their way across the Shribble by the shoals and stepping-stones.
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

shoals = areas of shallow water

The cow stopped long at the brook to drink, as if the pasture were not half a swamp, and Sylvia stood still and waited, letting her bare feet cool themselves in the shoal water,
Sarah Jewett -- A White Heron

shoal = stretch of shallow water

2 —as in:
shoal of tuna

Definition

a large group of fish swimming together

shoal = large group of fish

Other Uses (with this meaning)

shoal = large group of fish

This time he went westward, because he had fallen on the trail of a great shoal of halibut, and he needed at least one hundred pounds of fish a day to keep him in good condition.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

shoal = large group (of fish)

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