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Recent Examples of shallows
Saddling up with Santa Ynez Valley Horseback Rides means getting up close and personal with the Santa Ynez River, with up to four water crossings, as the horses step sure-footed through the shallows.
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Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
Weather and tides play a role, too; strand feeding is most often seen during low to mid-tide, when the shallows make hunting easier.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
The aquatic plant once lined the shallows off the bay’s shoreline from Sausalito’s Spinnaker restaurant north to the Strawberry Peninsula point — the second largest bed in San Francisco Bay.
—Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Kayak through tranquil mangrove forests, where herons and egrets wade in the shallows.
—Uncruise Adventures, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
The next year on the housewives’ Florida trip, though, Gina got so wound up by the thought of sharks and whales lurking in the shallows that when a l’il sharky actually showed up she was reduced to a shaking, crying mess.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
Dusted with crushed coral and powdered shells, the beaches of Los Roques—scattered like pearls across Venezuela’s Caribbean coast—offer sheets of talcum-white sand that dissolve into aquamarine shallows.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Marina was rising from the shallows.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
Weather and tides play a role, too; strand feeding is most often seen during low to mid-tide, when the shallows make hunting easier.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
The aquatic plant once lined the shallows off the bay’s shoreline from Sausalito’s Spinnaker restaurant north to the Strawberry Peninsula point — the second largest bed in San Francisco Bay.
—Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Kayak through tranquil mangrove forests, where herons and egrets wade in the shallows.
—Uncruise Adventures, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
The next year on the housewives’ Florida trip, though, Gina got so wound up by the thought of sharks and whales lurking in the shallows that when a l’il sharky actually showed up she was reduced to a shaking, crying mess.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
Dusted with crushed coral and powdered shells, the beaches of Los Roques—scattered like pearls across Venezuela’s Caribbean coast—offer sheets of talcum-white sand that dissolve into aquamarine shallows.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Marina was rising from the shallows.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shallows
Noun
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Days later, China’s powerful State Council declared a nature reserve over much of the shoal, drawing protests from both Manila and Washington over the unilateral move.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Analysts have said Beijing’s plan to categorize the shoal as a nature reserve amounts to trying to take the moral high ground in the dispute over the atoll, known as Huangyan Island in China and Panatag Shoal in the Philippines.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Other banks on the deal included BOC International, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China and China Merchants Bank.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
28 Oct. 2025
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And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.—
Daniela Avila,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Shallows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shallows. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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