Adverb : With the pitcher up, the outfielders played shallow. From Dictionary.com.
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.
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
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
Eyjolf waded after, pushing the boat, for the shallows went far out. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] 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
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
Our Higgins boat jammed in the shallows and so we had to walk across razor sharp coral. From Wordnik.com. [Tarawa] 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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