cobbles
Britishplural noun
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coal in small rounded lumps
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cobblestones
Example Sentences
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He’d barreled over wet cobbles past shivering farmers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
On the eve of the referendum, students in Rome wrote a call to the polls on the cobbles of a city square.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025
“The nodules sit on the seafloor like cobbles in a street,” said Diva Amon, a marine biologist at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2025
Coronation Street's longstanding, long-suffering character Gail will bid farewell to Weatherfield on Christmas Day, after 50 years on the cobbles.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024
The chimneys were contributing their thickness to the clammy air, and the pleasant reek of smoked herring and mackerel and haddock seemed to breathe out of the very cobbles.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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