An unexpected shoal forced the kayakers to carry their vessel. From LearnThat.org.
It's not been announced how it hit the shoal, which is marked on charts. From Wordnik.com. [StrategyPage.com] Reference
"It's moving on the shoal, which is increasing the risk to its structural integrity.". From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
"Only on the first shoal, which is in the 'Reed's' station, sir," Mr. Ormsby replied. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers] Reference
The word shoal, on the other hand, is the term for any simple social grouping of fish. ". From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
The law includes parts of the Spratlys as well as the Scarborough shoal, which is also claimed by Beijing. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Notwithstanding the currents, the cooling of the water indicated the existence of the shoal, which is noted in only a very few charts. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Besides, I have had the good fortune to avoid the shoal which is the most dangerous in this country. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
What shoal is that? he broke off, to ask. From Wordnik.com. [The Seed of McCoy] Reference
"shoal" of herrings consists of millions of fish, and takes up a place in the sea larger than the area of London. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
We have run on a shoal, that is all. From Wordnik.com. [Hildegarde's Neighbors] Reference
'Upon this bank and shoal' clustered the four men. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Not a shoal exists within the Straits of San Juan de Fuca. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The case for natural variability founders on another shoal. From Wordnik.com. [Which of These Is Not Causing Global Warming Today?] Reference
We warped the Sea Spell off the shoal and found her uninjured. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Beyond it the shoal broke with an angry roar in a long line of crumbling foam. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The stream decreased very fast and we were again much troubled with shoal water. From Wordnik.com. [An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775] Reference
A shoal of scarlet and green parrot-fish pursue a tribe striped with blue and orange. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Here the chart was examined, and the shoal was in reality laid down in a wrong place. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
It's shoal water, for three or four hundred feet around the Point, with a rock bottom. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
A shoal of invitations were fired at him and refused; he preferred to lapse into obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
In the shoal waters along the coast south of Cape Henlopen, terrapin are caught in various ways. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
The Phoenician purposely ran his ship on to a shoal in order to keep the secret of the discovery. 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
The Sea Spell had driven so hard and fast upon the shoal that she canted neither to port, or starboard. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
But Muscle shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It is suggested by astronomers, that the comet has become condensed, and broken up, forming a shoal of meteors. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
What meaning is there in this meeting between septuagenarians on the far Caribbean shoal of international politics?. From Wordnik.com. [God's Man In Havana] Reference
The belief today that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan can navigate the economy around almost any shoal has a predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [What We Learn From The 1920S] Reference
Out on the shoal he was a silent but interested spectator while the trawl was being pulled and the fish taken aboard. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The fact that shoal drains produce results so striking, is a stumbling-block in the progress of a more thorough system. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
"It has been a media-fest fed by a public which turns, often like a shoal of piranha fish, from one personality to another.". From Wordnik.com. [Alex Higgins funeral: mourners honour man who 'revolutionised snooker'] Reference
The sea breeze began to set in, which drove us more on the shoal, notwithstanding that we had carried out two anchors ahead. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
She was on the point of falling into a deadly snare, on the point of being wrecked upon the most dangerous shoal life presented. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Then I went to Bull's Bay next day (16th), and found that the troops were not yet ashore, owing to the difficulties of shoal water. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Ten miles from Tarpaulin the increased height of the ocean swells told that they were crossing the shoal rocky ground of Snippershan. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Water is shoal a great Way off the Shore, and the Coast pretty strait, that Ships are not much sheltered with the Point of Land, from the. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations] Reference
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