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Examples
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What kept us all from hearing it, pane after pane breaking into pebble-sized pieces, destruction retreating from the street like an echo.
Hannah Stephenson: Poetry: Smithereens Hannah Stephenson 2011
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Then he saw Captain Cat sit in a corner, his eyes closed, his head trembling slightly, clutching his wedding gift, a small laced up dusty linen bag filled with fifty pebble-sized diamonds.
At a Welsh Wedding 2010
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Charlie's dinnerware sat on the floor, two elegant silver bowls, one filled with fresh cold water, the other, at mealtime, with gelatinous meat-related canned food or dry, pebble-sized kibble.
Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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The sample from Apollo 11 is a Lucite ball with a four small rocks more like pebble-sized and the rock from Apollo 17 is one larger, about the size of a dime.
Searching for Moon Rocks Here on Earth | Universe Today 2010
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Charlie's dinnerware sat on the floor, two elegant silver bowls, one filled with fresh cold water, the other, at mealtime, with gelatinous meat-related canned food or dry, pebble-sized kibble.
Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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I took photos on my way to the deli, because grey days mean no shadow, which can lead to some pretty crisp looking pictures, but then the sky started to pelt me and my camera with pebble-sized chunks of ice.
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Office-supply stores have a pebble-sized product with a curved slot that uses the same principle.
Make A DIY Document Holder With A Single Binder Clip | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Sweet and sour: two of the four key flavors in Thai cuisine, and two which can be largely killed with the same pebble-sized stone, the cranberry.
Not-So-Strange Birds Part III: Cranberry Thai Curry Glazed Duck Breast with Coconut Mashed Potatoes 2008
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The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate.
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She looked down at the pebble-sized pieces, her mind wondering quickly where they had come from.
Saving Grace Denise Hunter 2005
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