The word 'shingly' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something that is covered in small, smooth stones or pebbles. Example: The beach was shingly, making it difficult to walk barefoot without stepping on sharp stones. Other examples: 1. The shingly driveway made for a bumpy ride in the old-fashioned horse-drawn carriage. 2. The children loved collecting shiny shells from the shingly shore. 3. The path leading to the secluded cove was shingly and slippery, adding to the challenge of reaching it. 4. The sound of the waves crashing against the shingly beach was soothing and peaceful. 5. The shingly texture of the new granite countertops gave the kitchen a modern and elegant look.
Of the miles of film he shot, his last pictures were his most personal: "War Requiem" (with Benjamin Britten's music and Wilfred Owen's words); "The Garden" (about the pebbly garden he grew at his cottage on shingly, windswept Dungeness); and "Blue" (just a blue screen with a soundtrack).
It extended itself — not evenly, but in fits and starts, around her waist, like a shingly girdle pushing long fibrous fingers down toward her groin, thrusting out cysts and gritty coruscations above her pubic hair.
0844 5005 101, underthethatch.co.uk/penyparrog Good for families with small children Sleeps 4 Cost from £700 a week Built in the 1920s, this bungalow has been restored sensitively, retaining many original features such as its glazed timber veranda, which looks out over a private garden to shingly East Wittering beach and the sea.
When the English traveller Isabella Bird Bishop came in the 1890s and laid eyes on the Cheonggyecheon – sardonically describing it as "one of the 'sights' of Seoul" – she wrote of "a wide, walled, open conduit, along which a dark-coloured festering stream slowly drags its malodorous length, among manure and refuse heaps which cover up most of what was once its shingly bed".
Boat hire can be found in Alinda, a sleepy village of no more than a few hotels and a shingly beach, where a man rents out from a small jetty.
There are caves to jump out of, footbridges to run across and lots of shingly beaches to swim from.
How do I know that the shingly beach that runs diagonally across painting No 19 extends out of the frame, on and on to a vanishing point?
Sandy or shingly, they all share the same, alluring, crystalline turquoise waters.
I swam for what seemed a long time and had given up and turned back when I saw it: a little shingly beach with a single-storey house above.
The Cochin Jewish community first centred in Cranganore (Shingly).
