Sentence examples for of a pebble from inspiring English sources

"Boulder!" "I think that's more of a pebble, Theo".

I peered in, and it reminded me of a pebble at the bottom of a well.

There's a great bow of a pebble beach, except the pebbles are the size of cars.

During the day, this rough-cast blob, which was made in Yorkshire, has the solidity of a pebble.

In the "Red Riding" movies that world has shrunk to the size of a pebble: it's hard, unblemished by variation and very, very small.

In their respective seasons, I've bought "ripe" pears with the yield of a pebble, and "ripe" mangos and nectarines that are anything but.

The designs have names like Rumi, White Onyx and Turkish Amberet, along with an accompanying photo of a pebble-walled bathroom in erotic midnight blue that looked suitable for the Pamela Anderson-Rick Salomon honeymoon suite in Las Vegas.

A paper lantern in front of a pebble-lined walkway marks the entrance to the hidden lunch spot which serves healthy Japanese home cooking - tofu and vegetables simmered in spicy miso, or chicken meatballs stewed with Napa cabbage - and speciality teas.

An abiding memory of my mum in the 1970s is of a woman with a Purdey haircut standing at the door of a pebble-dashed house, jabbing her watch while I blipped around in the dusk like a firefly behind a ball.

A new deterministic method has been developed for the neutronics analysis of a pebble-bed reactor (PBR).

Every day thousands of spherical fuel pebbles are transported pneumatically in the pipes outside the core of a pebble-bed reactor.