Thesaurus / shoal
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Its long-recorded history, which dates back to a ninth-century Icelandic saga and its mapping by Portuguese sailors in the 1500s, is littered with accounts of deadly shipwrecks on the island’s treacherous shoals.
SABLE ISLAND’S FAMOUS WILD HORSES ARE AT THE HEART OF A CONSERVATION CONTROVERSYMOIRA DONOVAN / HAKAI MAGAZINEAUGUST 1, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCEExpect lots of shoals and waves, with long eddies between rapids.
THE ULTIMATE NEW RIVER GORGE NATIONAL PARK TRAVEL GUIDEAWISEJULY 19, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEAlter finds little evidence of open bigotry in his past, but Carter usually managed to navigate the perilous shoals of racial politics in the Deep South by portage — avoiding them as best he could.
THE CASE FOR JIMMY CARTER AS A ‘CONSEQUENTIAL’ PRESIDENTRUSSELL L. RILEYDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POSTOff the entrance is a high rocky islet, the Nobby, within which the channel is shoal and dangerous to pass.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGThe continuation of the shoal between the islands and Point Lookout was not clearly ascertained.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGAt a short quarter of a mile from the point is a rocky shoal of small size, between which and the shore there is deep water.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGSome shoal marks on the water were observed opposite these islands, but their existence was not ascertained.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGAt the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGThe eastern side has several openings in it, but the shores are very low, and of shoal approach.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGFrom this island a considerable shoal extends to the westward for six miles towards a peaked hill on the extremity of a point.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGWORDS RELATED TO SHOAL
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- cursory
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- frivolous
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- one-dimensional
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- perfunctory
- peripheral
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shallow
- shoal
- silly
- sketchy
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
- warped
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