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How to use the word pebbles in a Sentence?

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If it were observable -- which, sadly, it won't be -- you would see a big flash, and dust and disintegrated rocket bits and pebbles and boulders thrown out, some of it for hundreds of kilometers.

Bill Gray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It could be that more than one of these possible mechanisms are at play, for example, thermal fracturing could be chopping the surface material into small pieces, making it far easier for meteoroid impacts to launch pebbles into space.

Steve Chesley

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

At that time, planets were beginning to grow, starting as dust grains and becoming pebbles, rocks, mountains and finally proto-planets, there were lots of collision between them. This study may help understand how they survived these collisions.

Albert Zijlstra

Found on CNN
5 years ago

She (Pebbles) was so loving. It was like she knew I needed somebody.

Belen Aldecosea

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A total of 12,000 people donated labor, helping clear grass, water weeds, pebbles and mud. Some served free food and drinks.

Avinash Saoji

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People always ask how Tina (Rinaldi) and I ended up with the nicknames Pebbles and Bam-Bam, and, I tell them that during our college years the nicknames were perfect and we have Danny (D'Angelo) to thank for them.

John McNerney

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What do you gargle with? Pebbles? (to singer Tom Jones after a 1969 Royal Variety performance)

Prince Phillip

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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