shoals
Example Sentences
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But based on oral arguments, I think this may be yet another case that crashed into the shoals of Alabama’s terrible lawyering.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
So after a rewrite, Mary Richards launches her best life from the shoals of a broken engagement instead.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
“It’s clear that he has navigated the fraught shoals of the bureaucratic politics of the administration effectively. He hasn’t ticked off anybody who matters, and that’s a lot by itself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025
Unheeding, Ged rowed always slower, looking over his shoulder, choosing a way among channels or shoals and shallows that he alone could see.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
