How to Use shingle in a Sentence
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Sir Hew was crouched on the shingle.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
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Back then, the shingle hadn’t made a big movie in about a decade.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026
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The gun slipped from the man’s grip and skidded across the shingles.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
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Providers could join the network rather than hang out a shingle on their own.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
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Stand back and check for any shingles that look lifted, crooked, or curled.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
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What is the most common age for someone to get shingles?
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
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At this time, there is no booster shot available or used for shingles.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2023
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Surf hit its sides and its bouncy form bumped up over the shingle at the water’s edge.
—Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
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But plenty of people get shingles much younger.
—Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
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Even if your roof looks fine from the street, small leaks could be forming under shingles.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
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Vaccines just for adults, like shingles, are not covered.
—Anna Kirkland, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
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Read on for everything to know about shingles.
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
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For starters shingles isn’t just a painful, blistering rash.
—Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 14 May 2026
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Just around the corner, strong gusts tore shingles from a home, leaving them strewn across the yard.
—Abby Dodge, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
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But here are a handful of things doctors do know about shingles—and wish the rest of us did too.
—Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 May 2026
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It is also used to help control the nerve pain that may linger after shingles.
—Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
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The shingle will release the film in theaters this May.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
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The rivers make business owners who hang a shingle there risk-takers.
—Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2021
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Vaccines lower the risk of getting shingles in the first place.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
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Or was somebody torching tar shingles on a roof somewhere?
—Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
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Or maybe a storm has recently rolled through your area, causing a few shingles to fall off.
—Helen Andriatsitohaina, The Spruce, 24 June 2026
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Sheeran's case of shingles is somewhat rare for his age of 35.
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Chad Bernhard knows the pain of shingles firsthand.
—Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
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The shingle’s drama slate is equally varied in scope.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
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The home’s outer structure has wood shake roofing / shingles.
—Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
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The home’s outer structure has wood shake roofing / shingles.
—Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
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Don't try to chip off the ice with any tools, which will definitely damage shingles.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
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Walk around your house with binoculars to check for moss, debris and shingles that are missing or curled.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
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Keep in Mind The kit doesn’t include shingles, flooring, or paint.
—Laura Kristine Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
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Curtis earned a law degree and in 1881, hung out his shingle.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2020
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Thick slices of extra crispy, crackling pork belly were shingled over a thick kare-kare sauce.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
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Thick slices of extra crispy, crackling pork belly were shingled over a thick kare-kare sauce.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
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Slice two of the remaining lemons and shingle the slices inside the trout, using half a lemon per fish.
—Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 23 May 2024
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Most notably, the unit is topped with a Cape Cod-style shingled cottage.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
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The wood is treated to keep out termites and moisture, and the whole thing can be painted and shingled to match your home.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 20 July 2025
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To convey a sense of flow, shingle flat river rocks or smooth, rounded pavers like fish scales for wending walkways and paths.
—Sunset Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
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Place a small spoonful of the sunflower-miso puree in the center of a plate and shingle the zucchini over the top.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 May 2024
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Continue shingling the eggplant, sauce, parm, and mozzarella, filling out the rest of the dish.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
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Arrange cabbage wedges, shingling as needed, in a greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish.
—Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
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Over each slice, spoon 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce, sprinkle with parm, and shingle with a slice of mozzarella.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
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Antique wood and stone features create a harmonious blend with the main house’s silvery blue shingled facade.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
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Built in the 1950s, the wood shingled house was more of a summer cottage than a year-round residence.
—Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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It is housed in the historic Captain Pollard House, a federal-style shingled home.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
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The buildings and shingled cottages are bright pastel, the waterfront dotted with cafes and patio umbrellas.
—Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
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Continue shingling apple slices, working toward center of crust, until almost filled to the center.
—Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2023
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These early immigrants shingled their homes with alerce wood, giving the downtown its storybook aesthetic.
—Mark Johanson, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
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Many residents’ families have lived in this tiny community of gray shingled homes for generations.
—Jennifer Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
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Most repairs and cosmetic updates don't require a permit, like painting walls, shingling your roof, replacing a faucet, or installing new bathroom tile.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
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Most repairs and cosmetic updates don't require a permit, like painting walls, shingling your roof, replacing a faucet, or installing new bathroom tile.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
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Ervin, who was eight at the time of the tragedy, follows the case with devastating rigor, shingling its developments with her memories of growing up without a mother.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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Gabled and shingled, the hotel, which was established in the early 1990s and named for the owners' daughter, spread out languorously along the beach.
—Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
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However, shingling the recording tracks results in a slower write process once the HDDs has enough data on it that the drive needs to write over older data.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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The pristine shingled buildings behind a white picket fence at The Roundtree only hint at their long history, but one of its cottages dates back 250 years.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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The island had gone from farm and pasture in the nineteenth century to nature preserves and residential property in the twentieth, its silvery shingled homes encircled by forests and deer.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
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The base, a thick Sicilian-esque crust, is topped with tomato sauce, salami and green bell peppers — and the whole shebang is shingled with slices of yellow American cheese, which is not the most photogenic finish.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
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This 2004 shingled contemporary has a heated six-car garage readily convertible into an event space, as well as an airstrip, Lake Champlain frontage, and a guest apartment.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Jan. 2026
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The 1890 shingled house features the original beadboard walls and ceilings and wood floors throughout, an open living-dining area with Atlantic Ocean views, and a finished basement.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 11 June 2023
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The collection of four 200-year-old houses that comprise the property are charming with their wooden porches and shingled exteriors, keeping the right amount of familiarity.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2026
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Finally, the researchers note that shingles diagnosis and treatment didn't increase the probability of dementia diagnoses.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
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Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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