gravel

From a sunny gravel seating area at Psagot winery, the Palestinian village of Mikhmas could be seen on the neighbouring hillside.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Antonelli paid the price for an error in the first session when he went off into the gravel on entry to the final corner.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Where possible, opt to walk on uneven surfaces, such as grass, sand or gravel, instead of pavement.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

I kicked at the gravel, letting the dust cover my legs.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

"Whilst not normally listed as a conflict mineral, the extraction of sands and gravels in some countries clearly has characteristics of being such."

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024

"This study is the first-ever report of thiamine compounds in salmon spawning rivers and the associated gravels where salmon spawn," Suffridge said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

“Because that tells us the flow pattern, and where there was energy at one particular time. You ask: Where did this water slow down? How are the gravels laid out?”

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

They need rivers with clean, well-oxygenated water and stable gravels.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2018

Porous soils are composed of materials that always allow of the escape of superabundant moisture; they are generally underlaid by beds of diluvial gravels, or by rocks of a porous character.

From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder

The off-leash area would occupy most all of the meadow, which would undoubtedly be fenced and graveled.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

“I consider it a spiritual discipline,” he said, his voice graveled like a pebbled beach.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

He is the graveled voice of this generation’s cowboys and poets.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

Seventeen years later, the park includes graveled walking trails equipped with interpretive signs and kiosk exhibits telling the story of those who built the mile-long tunnel with hand tools and explosives between 1870 and 1872.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2020

“Yet it is strange that Old Timothy mentioned him at all,” she thought as her feet crunched along the graveled path.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

He said the road was gravelled and changes were made to street signs and lampposts to transport them back to the 1920s.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2022

El Mayor has the biggest diaspora, and conditions remain basic: there is a hodgepodge of improvised houses and old American trailers divided by sandy gravelled roads, barbed-wire fences, and drooping salty pines.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2019

I’m imagining her now, pushing my red and white striped stroller through a gravelled Parisian park, cold winds rushing the tears along.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019

We walk down the wide, gravelled drive past majestic chestnut trees to see a typical bedroom in the new unit - the chateau's former laundry house.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2016

At the front, and on both sides, there was the lawn, sloping downwards to a gravelled drive, and then into the lane, and without any tree or flower-bed to relieve the bald greenness.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

They spent tens of thousands of dollars clearing brush around the property, graveling their driveway and even installing a concrete roof.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

What of the old, graveling question of Polish boundaries?

From Time Magazine Archive

But after 30 years of marriage, in 1953, she divorced him, charging that he left her "abandoned and alone" while working and graveling "to remote places in the world."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was late afternoon before Jon finished graveling the paths.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

"From libel, come libeled, libeler, libeling, libelous; from grovel, groveled, groveler, groveling; from gravel, graveled and graveling."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

As for gravelling, and walling, and digging, though I am not much delighted with them, yet something, indeed much, must be allowed to every man's taste.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson

In Kew Gardens it was, where I worked gravelling the walks.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

I quote this story as a text on which I wish to speak as to the advantage of gravelling heavy clay soils.

From Essays in Natural History and Agriculture by Thomas Garnett

If the same establishment is used by a number of flock-masters, gravelling will always be necessary.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings

As he was one day gravelling a little by-walk, wrapped in thought, the King turning a clump of bushes, suddenly brushed Israel's person.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville