Shoalness

By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The channel had become narrow and shoal, and as I was not prepared for so critical a navigation, the further examination was given up, and we bore up to coast along the eastern shore; but, from the shoalness of the water, we were obliged to sail at so great a distance that its continuity was by no means distinctly traced. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)

The following day was spent in examining a bight, but we were prevented from penetrating to the bottom by the shoalness of the water. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)

Tanka means eggboat; they resemble an eggshell divided longitudinally, and are peculiar to Macào, the shoalness of the water preventing a landing in larger vessels. ❋ W. Hastings Macaulay (N/A)

The Minnesota grounded in the North channel; the shoalness of the water prevented the near approach of the ❋ Unknown (1899)

Unlike Kobé, where the water permits vessels to lie close to the beach, Osaka is up a river, at the mouth of which is a bar; and, owing to the shoalness of the adjacent sea, the anchorage is a mile or two out. ❋ Unknown (1877)

As even the lighter British ships of war could not here navigate, on account of the shoalness, and the troops, to reach the place of debarkation, the Bayou des Pêcheurs, at the head of Lake Borgne, must go sixty miles in open boats, the hostile gun vessels had first to be disposed of. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Such conditions were unusually favorable to them, and, though a frigate was within plain sight, she could not get within range on account of the shoalness of water; yet the two hours 'action which followed did no serious injury to the grounded ship. ❋ Unknown (1877)

One or two of these made fierce swoops toward Harry, as if bent on having him at every hazard; but they invariably glided off when they found their customary mode of attack resisted by the shoalness of the water. ❋ Unknown (1848)

This shoalness of the sea-channels near their entrances probably results from the quantity of sediment formed by the wear and tear of the outer rocks exposed to the full force of the open sea. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

Several times the boat wheeled on the bar, and the men were obliged to jump out and prevent her from upsetting; at others, after making a way up one channel, the shoalness of the water forced us back to seek the deep channel. ❋ William Clark (1804)

The shoalness of the coast here makes the road of Samarang very inconvenient, both on account of the great distance that large ships (of which there were several in the road) are obliged to lay from the shore, and of the landing which is in a river that cannot be entered before half-flood. ❋ William Bligh (1785)

Immediately to the south of the southern mouth of this river commences a line of shoals which at low-water are nearly dry, extending to a distance of from two to four miles from the coast and running with scarcely any intermission round the bay: except at high-water it is therefore impossible to approach the greater part of the coast, even in the smallest boat, unless by tracking it over those flats, which proceeding is not unattended with danger, for, if it comes on to blow at all hard, owing to the shoalness of the water, the whole of them becomes a mass of broken billows. ❋ George Grey (1855)

[Sha], his [bathroom] [smells] so shoal ❋ Shish (2004)

That's Shoal! Your Shoal! She's Shoal! Your [food] is Shoal! ❋ ShmoopyPoopy (2009)

That [roadie] was [shoaling] me, so I sucked his wheel [all the way up] the hill. ❋ Sillygolem (2011)

[Todd]: I’m gonna [arrest] everyone just [bc] i can’t be them Everyone: Are you from Shoals? ❋ Nejwjnenebe (2019)

We were [kicked out] and [now] we're shoaled. ❋ Adnil Nella (2005)

[Cedar] Shoals is [the bomb]! [One] Cedar!!! ❋ Zedsix (2011)

Cedar Shoals student: [Aye bruh] you got that gas? Cedar Shoals student 2: hell ya. [Matter fact] ima [bless you]. ❋ Freakwhores (2018)

"Man, I'm gonna head up to The [Shoals] and jump in the river and cool off." "We need to head to the Catfish [Feastival] in [Ware Shoals] on Memorial day weekend" ❋ U Know 29692 (2008)

[quit] being a [shoal] toad shoal ❋ Kae_d (2010)

Friend A~ you going to [cedar shoals] next year? Friend B~HELL YEAH [BITCHHHH]!! Friend A~This year [finna be lit] asf! ❋ Anonymous8464 (2018)