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Cranes shifted the carriages as police and soldiers picked through the wreckage strewn down the gravel slope where at least three train carriages were tossed by the impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

I played shortstop on the gravel schoolyard grounds with a first baseman’s trapper’s mitt bought from Montgomery Ward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This is where Sagehen Meadows Road, a well-maintained gravel route, turns south.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Within its underground habitat, Erhaia dijiang lives among submerged gravel and broken rock in water less than one meter deep.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Pushing his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, Kelvin says, “Nature’s amazing. It’s better than a park. Way better than my apartment building surrounded by gravel and weeds.”

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

"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

Practically, the water-bearing strata are not limited merely to the sand and coarse gravels, as the clay formation lying above and below them is full of small gravel deposits containing considerable volumes of water.

From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by George Robert Graham Conway

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

Passersby and fellow diners do not seem to notice anything special about this bald, plainly dressed man with the graveled voice, though at least some likely know about his books.

From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2021

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

Winky the cat follows Ada down a graveled path, beyond the barn, past the pony carts, past old apple, pear and peach trees and watches Ada gather fuel for the fire.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

In the park nearby, grass creepers edged out into the graveled paths.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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