shallows in English

noun
1
an area of the sea, a lake, or a river where the water is not very deep.
To see for yourself, inspect the shallows at a pond or pool where the water is clear but also sports some vegetation.
verb
1
(of the sea, a lake, or a river) become less deep over time or in a particular place.
the boat ground to a halt where the water shallowed
noun
verb

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1. There's no shallows for them.

2. Growing ice shelves would make the shallows uninhabitable.

3. At dusk more fish come into the shallows.

4. Each year, marine reptiles gather again... in the birthing grounds ofthe shallows.

5. The tidal stream or current gradually decreases in the shallows.

6. Bullfrogs love breeding in the shallows where it has rich vegetation

7. 15 A man scything brown bracken by the shallows of Dunoon.

8. Conversable, witty, erudite, pyrotechnic: Dolven paradoxes and Aphorizes his way equally into the depths and the shallows.

9. Landlocked Alewives form large schools that often come into the shallows at night.

10. The bricks were formed from unleavened mud, dug from the shallows of a nearby stream.

11. For fall fishing spinners, jigs, topwater lures, and flies are great options for catching Bluegills in the shallows

12. Some of the capsized vessels lie well inside the sheltered anchorage, others in the shallows at its mouth.

13. But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.

14. The walrus followed us in to the shallows, and we hurriedly jumped out on to the shore to get better pictures.

15. [ Narrator ] So many small bones in one area... suggests that marine reptiles gathered in protected shallows to give birth.

16. Some island-hopping dinosaurs, like Eustreptospondylus, evolved to cope with the coastal shallows and small islands of ancient Europe.

17. Cranes, herons, storks, and spoonbills wade in the shallows, pausing motionless midstride, patiently waiting for an unsuspecting fish to swim within range.

18. Rather than wading in the shallows like most herons, the Least Bittern climbs about in cattails and reeds, clinging to the stems with its long toes

19. Though most Bluegills move to the shallows In the fall, if you are fishing for larger Bluegills, they are often found around 15 to 20 feet deep

20. 20 But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.

21. Some Anglerfish live in coastal shallows and hunt prey by crawling on the sea floor, but most Anglerfish live in the deep sea and swim in mid-water

22. Some Anglerfish live in coastal shallows and hunt prey by crawling on the seafloor, but most Anglerfish live in the deep sea and swim in midwater

23. Around lake shores and tidal flats, especially in the wide-open spaces of the west, flocks of elegant American Avocets wade in the shallows

24. When we change the sheets she frowns at our grosser appetites and Apotheosises her too-human past, as the sea rewrites itself, erasing storm, shipwreck and shallows to resume …

25. Above, the Medusa-like arms of a northern basket star (right) seek a meal of zooplankton beside a polar alcyonarian soft coral in the shallows beneath an ice sheet in the Canadian Arctic.

26. At that period, for the first time, deciduous plants were flourishing and annually shedding leaves into the water, attracting small prey into warm oxygen-poor shallows that were difficult for larger fish to swim in.

27. That's not a bad option to get to Flo's but it's a long ride to the Blue Hole and from there to the Ambergrises, and you'd better know how to use the chart and a GPS to stay inside the channel, since there are shallows all around

28. 1904, Frederick Palmer, With Kuroki In Manchuria‎[1], 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 251935877, page 82: At the water front of Antung itself the river is so deep that a disembarkation of infantry would actually have to be made in bodies on shore instead of in the shallows with deployment at a distance