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The actual track has been filled with pea gravel, designed to minimize noise from any reverberations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

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

After pestering the local council into submission, two sets of goals were hammered into a nearby patch of gravel where the McGinn brothers, extended family and friends could run wild.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

After walking on the dusty, compacted gravel floor of the midway for the last three hours, they feel like they’re two sizes bigger than they actually are.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

"Especially species that rely on more natural gravels and variation within the channel - that's the benefit of the meander."

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

"Whilst not normally listed as a conflict mineral, the extraction of sands and gravels in some countries clearly has characteristics of being such."

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

The alluvial silts and gravels also carry gold.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 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

His tone is graveled but youthfully sweet; only his shouts of “saúde!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

“I consider it a spiritual discipline,” he said, his voice graveled like a pebbled beach.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 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

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

They are revealing what appears to be a broad gravelled ceremonial road leading towards the river.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2010

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

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 Melville, Herman

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 Johnson, Samuel

What pleasure have we taken in planting and pulling up, digging and scattering, watering and draining, turfing and gravelling!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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 Jennings, Robert

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 Melville, Herman

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 Garnett, Thomas