shoaly

IPA: ʃˈoʊɫi

Examples of "shoaly" in Sentences

[52: 2] The long shoaly island in the Lagoon, immediately opposite
They are there to guide us through the shoaly waters of disagreement.
I asked, looking across the shoaly waters toward the sands of Monomoy and Cape Cod.
While this conversation continued, they reached the shoaly inlet under the flower-laden beech.
They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay.
Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.
Squat to the water, belching black smoke, her engines wheezing and repining, unwieldy of management, her bottom scraping every hummock of sand in all the shoaly
The island was very large, rocky, and thickly wooded, and the coast was rocky too, and the water very shoaly, which made me understand how difficult landing must have been in the stormy weather.
A varied and attractive picture this, with the turquoise-blue of the deep water, the purple and leek-green tints of the shoaly and sandy little port, and the tawny shore dotted by six distinct palm-tufts.
Her engines, this morning, were mortal slow and weak; they wheezed and whined, and she drew so deep that, in that shoaly water, she went aground twice between Sewell's Point and the stretch she had now reached of smooth pink water, with the sea-gulls dipping between her and the Minnesota.