The word "pebbles" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "pebbles" to refer to small, rounded stones. For example, "The pebbles scattered across the beach glittered in the sunlight."
At high tide the beach here is grey pebbles, but the water goes out to reveal a long stretch of sand.
At Church Bay, steep, caramel cliffs give way to pebbles and soft sand.
We drove and we drove miles, and it wasn't a beach at all, it was pebbles and rocks, but it was the only place a black family and a white family could socialise together".
Ordinary conservatories can be used for these exotics, but running costs are high without double glazing and humidity must be raised by putting trays of water on radiators or standing pots on trays of pebbles filled with water.
Every one has 20-feet-high walls, built of sun-baked mud studded with pebbles to withstand machinegun bursts.
They will rest over it like small pebbles inside a timer designed for fine grains of sand.
Pile enough pebbles together and a chain reaction will start.
Now the wide river bed is an expanse of sand and pebbles.
And the uranium fuel is encapsulated in rugged "pebbles", the size of tennis balls, which are designed to withstand a loss of coolant without disintegrating, making the reactor extremely safe.
If all goes well in the coming weeks then a comet called C/2012 S1 better known as ISON, after the Russia-based International Scientific Optical Network, which discovered it could be lighting the night skies in one of the most spectacular displays seen for many a year.Like all comets, ISON is a spacegoing snowball; a hunk of water ice, dust and pebbles.
Illegal workshops here produce bumbas, tiny parcels of pebbles and gunpowder that are the noisy bane of Egyptian celebrations.
