Example sentences for: pebbles

How can you use “pebbles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy (1996), she follows a resourceful Hansel figure as he struggles to escape a dark Viennese forest and find fame in America, "dropping little white pebbles along his path."

  • Straightforward enough is The neighbour before the house, the companion before the road [ al-jaar qabl ad-daar, ar-rafiiq qabl aT-Tariiq ], friendship and rhyme going hand in hand as in He who loves you will chew pebbles for you, your enemy will count your faults [Habiibutak yamDugh lak azzalaT wa \?\aduuka ya\?\ud al-ghalaT ].

  • There are nationalities and ethnic groups so confident, so satisfied with themselves that ethnic epithets either bounce off them like pebbles off an elephant or are adopted as amusing or even ornamental.

  • Instead, the kids will probably be found playing “Goats and Tigers,” a favorite national game that can be marked out in chalk on the ground and played with pebbles, or on attractive brass boards with carved pieces.

  • Instead, President George Bush started plumping for a $72 billion space-based "Brilliant Pebbles" defense system.


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