Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of pebbles; abounding with small roundish stones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of pebbles; pebbled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or containing
pebbles . - adjective With a surface like that of pebbles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abounding in small stones
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Examples
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Now, I just dribble in water until the mixture is "pebbly" and forming small clumps of dough.
Archive 2007-03-01 Nupur 2007
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Add the butter and pulse about 12 times, until the mixture has a pebbly coarse texture.
Ellie Krieger: 3 Rules That De-Demonize Comfort Food Ellie Krieger 2011
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Cara brushed her hand over the pebbly imprint the asphalt shingles had left on the back of her legs.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Grabbing a hand trowel, he turns over the pebbly loam looking for worms for his plot.
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Down the string my friend and I trace, digging six-inch-deep holes, aligning the grafting scar on the baby vine with a pinprick in the irrigation line, then setting the vine in the pebbly earth and burying its hairy roots.
Owning a Piece of the Vineyard Heidi Mitchell 2012
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Add the butter and pulse about 12 times, until the mixture has a pebbly coarse texture.
Ellie Krieger: 3 Rules That De-Demonize Comfort Food Ellie Krieger 2011
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The beach was a long, wide, pebbly band, and fishermen would throw their lines out for smallmouth bass and trout, only to catch them and throw them back.
Independence Day billy robinson 2011
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Above all, it has a beautiful rocky purity, pebbly shores, the coldest, cleanest sea in the Aegean, old mountain pathways and simple beach tavernas.
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He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island.
Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test Eric Felten 2011
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Cara brushed her hand over the pebbly imprint the asphalt shingles had left on the back of her legs.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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