Shoal in a sentence as a noun

We resemble more a shoal of fish or a wildebeest herd.

The user should get an alarm if their course will take them over a shoal or into a mark.

I'm told the latest sonars can distinguish both the species and age of fish in a shoal.

If next year the total shoal population had grown, their 'share values' had increased.

Shoal in a sentence as a verb

I'm talking about things like an anthill or a tuna shoal kind of emergence -- a collective animal.

Rapid and dramatic changes to its geomorphological formation, due to the large-scale removal of its sand and gravel, saw the gradual reduction of Silver Sands’ once ‘silvery’ crest, into a predominantly rocky shoal.

It might be a shoal of hydrocarbon herrings, or some Saturnian Kraken being woken from its long sleep by the alien emanations of the spacecraft overhead, although I can't see any reasonable prior that would give such propositions greater plausibility than the more geologically-oriented suggestions in the article.

Shoal definitions

noun

a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

noun

a stretch of shallow water

See also: shallow

noun

a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

See also: school

verb

make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

See also: shallow

verb

become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"

See also: shallow