gravel

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Jonas looks around, taking in every detail of the trees, sky and gravel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

In the tests, the team dropped marbles into sand that contained scattered pieces of painted gravel representing boulders on Dimorphos.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

SUVs idle in the gravel shoulders, with camera cables snaking out of their doors and across the asphalt.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

It’s a triangular pebble with smoothed edges that I plucked from a pile of gravel in northern Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

I take a few strides farther down the road and find an archway in the trees where the gravel road turns into a large parking lot.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith