gravel

Aside from being showered with gravel churned up by the "gobby" miscreants, no one came to harm that day, but others have not been so lucky.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

People would walk in a sandbox to get the sound of somebody walking up the gravel road to the door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The local Shizuoka government and official mountain guides posted video clips and photos from the mountain Thursday morning, showing access roads and gravel trails covered with dense mist and rain.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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

Just as I’m about to cross the street, I hear a crunching sound—someone walking down the little gravel path that leads from the graveyard to the gates.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

"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

“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

Gem-stones are frequently found in gravels or other detrital deposits, where they occur as rolled crystals or fragments of crystals, and in many cases have been reduced to the form of pebbles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 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

"I didn't know . . . please . . ." "Send Dr. Bledsoe to me," he said, turning away and swinging up the graveled path to the building.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

The tall gray motor-buses were the only life of the square except for the pigeons and the man with a hose who sprinkled the gravelled square and watered the streets.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

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

What of the old, graveling question of Polish boundaries?

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 highly graveling doctrine and practice of the world, above cited, had in some small degree been manifested in the case of Pierre.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

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

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

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

If money can be saved by any plan, perhaps it is as well to notice it; but after having weighed the advantages and disadvantages of gravelling, I am of opinion, that bricks are preferable.

From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Samuel Wilderspin