gravel
Example Sentences
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Not far away was a washout and the bottom was covered with gravel.
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Fred was a streak of gray flying over gray rocks, and Nim’s legs followed him as she ran for her life down the side of the hot gravel cone.
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He treks the gravel path behind the farmhouse to a small pasture tucked between rows of corn and soybeans.
What should be sweet and chewy is hard and tastes vaguely like gravel.
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There was standing water on the gravel road, but not nearly as much as there had been on the highway.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.