shingle
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Agents hung up their shingle in even the smallest of towns, becoming part of the community they sold to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Sandgate Granville Parade Beach, Kent – a shingle beach used by swimmers and kayakers.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
His memories alight on his father, Wheeler, an attorney who turned down a high-paying job in Chicago to hang out his shingle in Port William.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Technically, they're equals now that these childhood friends have joined forces to hang out their own shingle after jumping ship from the management company their fathers created.
From Salon ● May 9, 2025
Even though the shingle was under water, I could see the faint line of red ember still smoldering along its edge.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Forty minutes east of Absolem, I spotted the shingled barn of Bailey’s Orchard, where 79-year-old farmer Rodney Bailey tends dozens of obscure apple varieties including King David, Chenango Strawberry and Black Gilliflower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
When you imagine a typical American family home, you probably picture something like John Williamson and Sue Spaziani’s house, with its shingled roof and wraparound porch.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2024
“It’s not all open vistas of the seas and shingled cottages of the rich. It’s cold, hard, long winters, people having bean suppers at church, traditions that go back to the 1600s.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
The building, which has been closed since 2019, now has a refurbished exterior, structural reinforcements and a new shingled roof, meticulously recreated in the 18th-century Dutch style.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Squarely behind them both was a big shingled building that looked like a fancy beach club in the summer.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
For presentation, gingerly prop the tofu against the pork, shingling it out slightly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Top each with two thin slices of ham and the cucumbers, shingling the cucumbers neatly on top of each sandwich.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
In addition to potted plants, they have moss-wrapped kokedama, cork-mounted plants, terrariums and shingling plants.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
Using shingling, we transformed the text of articles in both datasets into a list of tokens, and then turned the list of tokens into a list of n-token sequences called “shingles.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 1458
He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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