Adjective : shallow water. ,a mind that is not narrow but shallow. ,shallow breathing. ,The shortstop caught the pop fly in shallow left field. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : With the pitcher up, the outfielders played shallow. From Dictionary.com.
The swan floats lonely with her brood in shallows cool. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
As the thaw begins, look for open water between ice sheets and the shoreline, particularly in shallows adjacent to deep water. From Wordnik.com. [The Nine Best Places to Fish a Pond During Ice-Out] Reference
At the cañon bottom was water and across the shallows were the bedding-grounds and the camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Ridin' Kid from Powder River] Reference
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. From Wordnik.com. [Timing] Reference
"With three cat-folk on the prowl, locating and catching the fishlike denizens of the shallows was a problem soon solved. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
In front an old woman's ankles brace in the shallows. From Wordnik.com. [Evensong] Reference
A wagtail bobbing in the shallows fled into the waste. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
The cow stood just off a sandy bank, in the river shallows. From Wordnik.com. [Meridian (excerpt)] Reference
Trix Davenport steered well out from the dangerous shallows. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
California had taken my place in the shallows, his fish hard held. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Eyjolf waded after, pushing the boat, for the shallows went far out. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
In half an hour the horses were trotting through the shallows again. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
Cold froze the mud along the river bank and ice clotted its shallows. From Wordnik.com. [The Unnatural History of Brown's Island] Reference
Their flat-bottomed boats were suitable to shallows and ebbing tides. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Knowing the shallows of the river, I arrived quite easily by wading. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
They are found in shallows of salty waters; and sometimes on the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
The sound of the river far off in the shallows among the saugh-trees came on. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Our Higgins boat jammed in the shallows and so we had to walk across razor sharp coral. From Wordnik.com. [Tarawa] Reference
The small log slipped through a race between two shallows, ahead of the greater timber. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Hades is watching, looming in the overdrawn shadows and beyond shallows of the alleyways. From Wordnik.com. [Hemera Rises] Reference
Pushing the thing down the beach, he sank it in the shallows with several rocks to anchor it. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The shallows below the cheekbones were deep, as though she had suffered the loss of her back molars. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The Finkler Question is a terrifying and ambitious novel, full of dangerous shallows and dark, deep water. From Wordnik.com. [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference
Gliding over the surface of life, knowing nothing of its depths, he floats gracefully through its shallows. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The thing crawled out of the shallows, its eyes focused in a blind stare on the praying hands of the Wyvern. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
In the shallows where it had spread over its low banks, Ringtail found an abundance of food and fed daintily. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Round rocks, and over shallows, and through mud, she rowed, till she got to the landing stairs of the palace. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
There was a struggle under the log, a splashing of the water, and then a figure bobbed up out of the shallows. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
During the day the moose dozed on a cool mud bed in the shallows, his body submerged save for the tip of his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
"He is making for the other shore, and if he gets in among the shallows over there I am afraid we will lose him yet.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
At the mouth, enormous tides sweep with swift currents over the shallows and produce foam-decked waves known as the "bore.". From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
They had fish attached to a line through the mouth and gill in groups of five or six, in the shallows next to their feet. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 4] Reference
Three the east forces from the deep into shallows and quicksands, piteous to see, dashes on shoals and girdles with a sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Its highways are lined with flowers and fountains, while the natural beauty of the sea's turquoise shallows has been preserved. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To Paradise] Reference
Ward said the fugitive ran back to the water and stole another boat but ran aground in the shallows, where police shot out his engine. From Wordnik.com. [Barefoot Bandit Escape Attempt Caught On Tape (VIDEO)] Reference
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