shingling

Example Sentences

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For presentation, gingerly prop the tofu against the pork, shingling it out slightly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Back east on Cape Cod, where once upon a time my shingling trade migrated, the occasional red cedar roof comes along in the wealthiest of ocean-view neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

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

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