shallows

Speech parts

1. shallows - Noun

2. shallows - Verb

Meaning

shallows

plural of shallow

shallows pl (plural only)

An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas.
You'll have to navigate carefully through these shallows.

shallows

third-person singular simple present indicative of shallow

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Examples

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be. Herbert Spencer

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep. Christina Rossetti

And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle-a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life. Annie Besant

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. Matthew Henry

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare

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