[
UK
/ʃˈɪŋɡəl/
]
[ US /ˈʃɪŋɡəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɪŋɡəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
cover with shingles
shingle a roof
NOUN
- a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- building material used as siding or roofing
How To Use shingle In A Sentence
- Therefore, if the vaccine afforded protection for life, there would be a very strong argument in favor of universal vaccination - no chicken pox and no shingles.
- Walking for any distance along shingle bank is punishing on the legs. Times, Sunday Times
- For a moment I feared I was going to drown as I lay pole-axed on the shingle, but scrambled free in time. Country diary: Western Cumbria
- Half-pipe, tan shingles created a beautiful tessellation on the roof - one Theorton considered if he were ever to purchase his own home some time.
- Rapping the knife with a baton, split a thin shingle from the side of a dry wood block. Basic Knife Skills by Field & Stream's Keith McCafferty
- Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel.
- It's protected by a huge shingle bank. Times, Sunday Times
- Standing clear of the cluster of converted railway carriages and huts that line the shingle shore, the tower has four storeys and two bedrooms. Times, Sunday Times
- A small wood shingled A frame, it was solidly encased by trees, hidden from view.
- The shingles are no great problem; I've shaken hands on a deal to have the house and garage roof replaced in the autumn and if I get a major leak before then all I need do is make a call and they'll hop on over with a large blue tarpaulin.