How to Use pebble in a Sentence

pebble

noun
Definition of pebblenext
  • The tips of her glossy hair nearly touched the pebbles on the ground.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The blast should send pebbles and dust up into the arm.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2023
  • For decades, the pound has been the pebble in the shoe of every London jaunt.
    — Adam Erace, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In the grand scheme, this matchup was a mere pebble in the ocean of meaningful wins.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The water swept over the pebbles and swelled up into the cemetery.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Our feet felt great across grass, pavement, pebbles, and sand, and the slide straps kept us locked in.
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • The target is a white pebble placed on a ridge of ochre stone 75 yards away in the shadow of the mountain’s folds.
    — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • For years it’s been a thorn in my side, a pebble in my bartending shoe.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 June 2023
  • On the second breath, a small pebble flew out of his left nostril and rattled across the floor.
    — Jacob E. Osterhout, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • What to Consider Small pebbles can wedge into the holes in the soles.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Tear the bread into pebble-size pieces in a medium-size bowl.
    — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The latest proof of this truth just plipped, like a wee pebble, into the briny seas of Netflix.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • The amber-colored pebbles are made of smoky quartz, and the white ones are from rock crystal.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But most, says Hummels, are somewhere between the size of a grain of sand and a small pebble.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Another whale then swims by to pick the pebble up again.
    — Brian Skerry, Time, 8 June 2021
  • Quintana, a 41-year-old lawyer in a pink scarf, stared as a pebble crumbled in her hand.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Legend has it that Arthur found a pebble in his shoe on his way to battle and tossed it away.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Then, add the bourbon and fill halfway with pebble ice.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Neoprene gravel guards to keep pebbles out of your boots are a nice touch.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The players move pebbles around it according to a set of rules.
    — Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Strain into a rocks glass with new pebble ice and garnish with a mint sprig.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Loose pebbles were perched here and there, making the path up and down the slopes all the more precarious.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Top the potting soil with small pebbles for a finished look — and to keep away fungus gnats.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
  • The same goes for an errant piece of plastic, a shell where it wasn’t meant to be, or a pebble in your mussels.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In some places, the water hardly covers the pebbles lining the riverbed.
    — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Ripples stir the surface, and then the other pool—the pool that never felt the pebble—starts moving to its rhythm.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The gecko was directly above him, dull and textured like a pebble.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • My mind runs with them, Pooling in heel-prints, fumbling pebble and stem.
    — Lindsay Turner, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Rappler has been a pebble in Duterte’s shoe since his election.
    — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020
  • What has happened the last few weeks feels like falling pebbles before a rock slide.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2024

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