SHALLOW in a Sentence

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For SHALLOW, below is one of 61 sentences:
The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHALLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shallow
 a.  lacking physical depth; not deep or strong
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  They dug in hastily in shallow pits to the north of the town in the valley of Peachtree Creek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  So many men had been buried that month, in shallow, hastily dug graves at Oakland Cemetery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town--no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  The townsfolk sheltered as best they could in cellars, in holes in the ground and in shallow tunnels dug in railroad cuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Then Scarlett saw with relief the faint rise and fall of her shallow breathing and knew that Melanie had survived the night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  The Yankee lay in the shallow pit Scarlett had scraped out under the scuppernong arbor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  No ghost rose from that shallow grave to haunt her in the long nights when she lay awake, too tired to sleep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  The intense heat of the fire is prevented from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir extending under the entire inclosed surface of the works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
9  In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
10  Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw, was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
12  The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing them where they were wide and shallow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
14  Charley Harling and I had hunted through these woods, fished from the fallen logs, until I knew every inch of the river shores and had a friendly feeling for every bar and shallow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
15  The "pigeon house" stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  We waded across a shallow stream.
2  His analysis was always shallow.
3  Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride.
4  The water gets quite shallow towards the shore.
5  Deep rivers move in silence, shallow brooks are noisy.
6  My eyes have shallow sea land old clap vita etched a bay miss.
7  They waded the river at a shallow point.
8  Put the milk in a shallow dish.
9  The turtle hibernates in a shallow burrow for six months of the year.
10  Several different species of fish inhabit these turbid shallow waters.
11  I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy.
12  People dig or pan for gold or diamonds, risking their lives in shallow mines which frequently collapse.
13  Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes -- and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
14  I thought of the life that lay before me -- _your_ life, sir -- an existence more expansive and stirring than my own: as much more so as the depths of the sea to which the brook runs are than the shallows of its own strait channel.
15  Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to recognize his fundamental shallowness.