gravel
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Walking on uneven terrain, such as on grass, gravel or bush trails, can help maintain proprioception.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
People still marvel at Miyazaki’s handcrafted backgrounds and his painstaking dedication to balancing its feather-light score with the melodies of flowing water or the gentle crunch of a child’s footfalls on grass and gravel.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The house is tucked down a long, gravel driveway, surrounded by nature, which Monson de Kansky says is the most important thing she’s learned to appreciate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Martin Marietta specializes in supplying heavy building materials such as crushed stone, sand, gravel and asphalt used across infrastructure, including highways and sidewalks, and in construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The train swung around as it slid; then it began to roll, showering me with gravel and debris.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
"As such, sand and gravels underpin our modern economies, and also are key in many aspects of the UN Sustainable Development Goals," Best said.
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
“It can spread from very small fragments if you replace water in your aquarium, cleaning gravels and using buckets to dip water out and in.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
They need rivers with clean, well-oxygenated water and stable gravels.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2018
The flint gravels of the coast of the Channel, Norfolk, &c., are excellent examples.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
The off-leash area would occupy most all of the meadow, which would undoubtedly be fenced and graveled.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
“What’s the punishment?” he said in a graveled baritone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 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
Harry heard his heavy footfalls on the graveled drive, and then a car door slammed.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
With a voice as gravelled as a churning cement mixer, he is still sprightly and genial at 80.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
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
The State Highway Commission has set aside funds for graveling this section preparatory to surfacing.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
What pleasure have we taken in planting and pulling up, digging and scattering, watering and draining, turfing and gravelling!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
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
The object of the mound is to enable the proprietor to see easily at any time how the tuber is getting on, by just "gravelling" it with his hand.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll
Anyone who liked to cart away a few loads for the purpose of gravelling his garden-path was at liberty to do so.
From The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking
Mr. William Crone, contractor for gravelling the streets of the town, was unfortunately drowned on Saturday last.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
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