SHOAL in a Sentence

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As is customary in those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one lone whale on the outskirts of the shoal.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shoal
 n.  a great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng
Classic Sentence:
1  Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  One day she saw spouts, lowered her boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
3  Ere long, several of the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
4  As is customary in those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one lone whale on the outskirts of the shoal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
5  For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
6  And first Sergestus is left behind, struggling on the steep rock and shoal water, and shouting in vain for help and learning to race with broken oars.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
7  Many watch the retreat and slack of the sea, and leap boldly into the shoal water; others slide down the oars.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
8  But not thy galley, Tarchon; for she dashes on a shoal, and swings long swaying on the cruel bank, pitching and slapping the flood, then breaks up, and lands her crew among the waves.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
9  A few minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  To the left of us there was the long uninterrupted shoal, and to the right a high, steep bank heavily overgrown with bushes.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
11  Three the east forces from the deep into shallows and quicksands, piteous to see, dashes on shoals and girdles with a sandbank.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
12  when Orion rising on us through the cloudrack with sudden surf bore us on blind shoals, and scattered us afar with his boisterous gales and whelming brine over waves and trackless reefs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
13  I call him thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
Example Sentence:
1  The boat struck a shoal and fetched up all standing.