Mr. Thistle found the opening to be very narrow, and no more than 2 fathoms in the shoalest part; we therefore stood out, repassing within a small black islet, upon which were some seals.
The French navigator having passed without side of this island, I steered within, through a passage of a short mile wide; and had 17 fathoms for the shoalest water, on a sandy bottom.
When the measurements indicate that the yawl is approaching the shoalest part of the reef, the command is given to 'ease all!
It is anchored on the shoalest part of the reef by a rope with a heavy stone made fast to the end of it.
I am; I have hit the broadest and shoalest part of the Bank the first time of trying!
The deep-sea lead was got ready, and when we had reached what we considered the centre and shoalest part of the bank, no bottom was found with a hundred fathoms of line.
From the shoalest part, Mount Adolphus bore North 56 degrees East, and Point Dicky South 26 degrees East.
When Green Mound Point and the next point to the southward of it are in a line, you are within a few yards of the shoalest part of the bar.
The shoalest part has 35 fathoms and a rocky bottom.
It has a depth of 3½ fathoms on the shoalest part, deepening gradually on all sides for a considerable distance.
It has a sharp, rocky bottom, shoalest in the center, where are 25 fathoms, sloping gradually southwest and falling off suddenly on the northeast side to the mud in 60 fathoms on the edges.
The shoalest water is about 1 mile from Wooden Ball Island, the depth increasing toward the southern end.
Depths are from 30 to 50 fathoms, the shoalest water being on the eastern part, the shoal has a broken and rocky bottom, but the rest of the ground is gravelly and muddy.
The depths are from 35 fathoms on the shoalest area (where is a piece of ground some 4 miles long by 1 mile wide near the center of the bank, lying in a NE.
The shoalest parts have from 14 to 18 feet of water (Bulwark Shoal: the eastern is Round Shoal).
Depths here range from 30 on the shoalest parts to 60 fathoms, the bottom being of tough blue clay.
In summer hake are abundant here, and halibut are quite plentiful in July on the shoalest part.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoalest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
