1. shallows - Noun
2. shallows - Verb
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
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