gravel

Example Sentences

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He treks the gravel path behind the farmhouse to a small pasture tucked between rows of corn and soybeans.

From The Wall Street Journal

What should be sweet and chewy is hard and tastes vaguely like gravel.

From Literature

There was standing water on the gravel road, but not nearly as much as there had been on the highway.

From Literature

At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.

From Barron's

While German municipalities used to allow citizens to sprinkle salt on frozen walkways, this was banned years ago, in favour of just gravel, as the corrosive salt is known to attack the roots of trees.

From Barron's