Example sentences for: shoals

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

  • It is debatable which is the better procedure; it is not debatable that resources are limited, that some form of rationing is inevitable, and that virtually every scheme for financing medical care has run aground on the shoals of excess demand in an ocean of insufficient resources.

  • Aklins has good bonefish flats with virgin fish shoals, though there are few tourist facilities and as yet no major plans to expand facilities.

  • Scrappy crews of small hand-painted boats troll the waters just offshore, and trawlers fish deep in the Atlantic for big shoals of bacalhau (cod) so beloved by the Portuguese.

  • You’ll see sea urchins, shoals of fish, and even small octopuses that make their homes in rocky crevices just off shore.

  • Halifax’s strategic position on the Atlantic soon proved even more invaluable as a base for “farming” the rich shoals of cod and herring on the ocean’s Scotian Shelf.


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