gravel
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A public gravel road traverses the ranch on the way to a U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Jones said Dolgellau "has a history of gold mining" and very small specks of gold could be found among "a lot of gravel".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
People would walk in a sandbox to get the sound of somebody walking up the gravel road to the door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The local Shizuoka government and official mountain guides posted video clips and photos from the mountain Thursday morning, showing access roads and gravel trails covered with dense mist and rain.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
With his other hand, Ben pushes aside leafy branches blocking our gravel path, and we step into a grassy clearing.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"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
They’re deprived of fine gravels, and their redds are at risk of being destroyed by high water.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
They need rivers with clean, well-oxygenated water and stable gravels.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2018
Porous soils are composed of materials that always allow of the escape of superabundant moisture; they are generally underlaid by beds of diluvial gravels, or by rocks of a porous character.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
The off-leash area would occupy most all of the meadow, which would undoubtedly be fenced and graveled.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
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
“For the Navajo Nation and Indian Country,” Damon said, “the census determines whether your dirt roads get graveled or paved, or whether your people move from dirt floors to a solid foundation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
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
I follow her across an empty graveled lot.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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
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
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
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
They were resumed in 1879, and the dam as also the slide successfully completed, with the exception of graveling of the dam in the fall of 1881.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
Mr. William Crone, contractor for gravelling the streets of the town, was unfortunately drowned on Saturday last.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
In Kew Gardens it was, where I worked gravelling the walks.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
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
Previous to this gravelling, the land was a stiff, obdurate clay nearly to the surface.
From Essays in Natural History and Agriculture by Thomas Garnett
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
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