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

Zoom out, though, and it does an impressive job of steering investors away from dangerous shoals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Hope is always crashing against the shoals of disappointment.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024

Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas