How to Use pebble in a Sentence

pebble

noun

• The tips of her glossy hair nearly touched the pebbles on the ground.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
• The blast should send pebbles and dust up into the arm.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2023
• For decades, the pound has been the pebble in the shoe of every London jaunt.
  — Adam Erace, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
• In the grand scheme, this matchup was a mere pebble in the ocean of meaningful wins.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• The water swept over the pebbles and swelled up into the cemetery.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Our feet felt great across grass, pavement, pebbles, and sand, and the slide straps kept us locked in.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• The target is a white pebble placed on a ridge of ochre stone 75 yards away in the shadow of the mountain’s folds.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• For years it’s been a thorn in my side, a pebble in my bartending shoe.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 June 2023
• On the second breath, a small pebble flew out of his left nostril and rattled across the floor.
  — Jacob E. Osterhout, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• What to Consider Small pebbles can wedge into the holes in the soles.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
• Tear the bread into pebble-size pieces in a medium-size bowl.
  — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 28 Feb. 2020
• The latest proof of this truth just plipped, like a wee pebble, into the briny seas of Netflix.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
• The amber-colored pebbles are made of smoky quartz, and the white ones are from rock crystal.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• But most, says Hummels, are somewhere between the size of a grain of sand and a small pebble.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• Another whale then swims by to pick the pebble up again.
  — Brian Skerry, Time, 8 June 2021
• Quintana, a 41-year-old lawyer in a pink scarf, stared as a pebble crumbled in her hand.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
• Legend has it that Arthur found a pebble in his shoe on his way to battle and tossed it away.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
• Then, add the bourbon and fill halfway with pebble ice.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023
• Neoprene gravel guards to keep pebbles out of your boots are a nice touch.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The players move pebbles around it according to a set of rules.
  — Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2020
• Strain into a rocks glass with new pebble ice and garnish with a mint sprig.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
• Loose pebbles were perched here and there, making the path up and down the slopes all the more precarious.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Top the potting soil with small pebbles for a finished look — and to keep away fungus gnats.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• The same goes for an errant piece of plastic, a shell where it wasn’t meant to be, or a pebble in your mussels.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
• In some places, the water hardly covers the pebbles lining the riverbed.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• Ripples stir the surface, and then the other pool—the pool that never felt the pebble—starts moving to its rhythm.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• The gecko was directly above him, dull and textured like a pebble.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• My mind runs with them, Pooling in heel-prints, fumbling pebble and stem.
  — Lindsay Turner, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
• Rappler has been a pebble in Duterte’s shoe since his election.
  — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020
• What has happened the last few weeks feels like falling pebbles before a rock slide.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024