Sentence examples for pebble- from inspiring English sources

The hotel sits in a no-man's land, right next to the train station, but has a unique position – in one direction it looks out over the bustling fishing port of Le Tréport, in the other across the long pebble beach and brightly-painted bathing huts of Mer-les-Bains.

Harriet suggests to people that they keep a little off-cut of the stone or a beautiful pebble.

Thus "Kimmeridge (n): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing"; or "Glassel (n): A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, but which children nevertheless insist on filling their suitcases with after a holiday".

The quiet pebble beach is a 500-metre walk, and you can drive to the nearby coastal town of Limni, or hike in the mountains.

Much could still go wrong.In this section Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rice wine Against the grain On democracy's front line So that's democracy A pebble comes loose ReprintsThe climate of fear in East Timor itself is worsening.

SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche.

I had been called into our pebble-dashed council house for a treat.

The British architect's globular ­complex of pebble-shaped towers – an office and retail development called Wangjing Soho – is itself something of a copy of her recently completed Galaxy Soho, also in Beijing, and both projects are in keeping with the city's new vernacular of bulbous UFOs, kicked off in 2007 by Paul Andreu's ­National Grand Theatre.

Another, with pebble-spectacles, trug and boots, was the ghost of Gertrude Jekyll, whose principles of gardening first informed the place.

China is also developing pebble-bed reactors.Further into the future, engineers are developing designs for so-called fourth-generation plants that could be built between 2030 and 2040.

Even a 2% fall could be enough to push the level of vaccination below the point where the population as a whole is sufficiently immune to stop measles from spreading.Forgotten dangersIn this section Rash worries In flux Cellular pebble-dash Reprints Related items Going with the herdApr 9th 1998This is, to say the least, unfortunate.