Sentence examples for few pebbles from inspiring English sources

The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles.

A few pebbles in the driveway?" Mr. Roberts made a similar argument about 20 years ago, when he organized a campaign called Project Quiet Yards.

The extra media interest was just putting a few pebbles on top of a huge mountain and we dealt with it by keeping professional, keeping it about the training and doing very few interviews.

We head to my favourite beach, Cala Oliveira, a tiny cove down a bumpity-bump lane from Roca Llisa with a few pebbles, gin-clear water and shelved cliffs where the nudists hang out.

Djuna was tall, quite handsome, bold-voiced, and a remarkable talker, full of reminiscences of her Washington Square life in New York and her eccentric childhood somewhere up the Hudson: her father, who entertained odd ideas of nourishment, decided that since chickens ate pebbles to aid their digestion, a few pebbles in the diet of his children might be equally salubrious.

Both choughs will hide food in cracks and fissures, concealing the cache with a few pebbles.

But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".

A variation is that the teacher lived in Maine, but was a friend of a local miner, who had mailed her a small box with some gold and a few "blue pebbles" in it.

A walk along the beach is still a walk along the beach, it's still soothing to hear the crashing waves and watch the foamy water recede, taking a few soft pebbles with it.

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If the item you're sticking has a narrow base (such as the laminated photos, or a snipping from a garland or plastic Christmas tree) it might be helpful to stick a few colored pebbles to the underside of the lid.