7 example sentences using shoal.
Shoal used in a sentence
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
a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
a stretch of shallow water
See also: shallow
a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
See also: school
make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
See also: shallow
become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
See also: shallow