gravel

Aside from being showered with gravel churned up by the "gobby" miscreants, no one came to harm that day, but others have not been so lucky.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Then maybe my foot would not have lost purchase in the gravel, and the Rally—now lying like a poleaxed giraffe—would have remained upright.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

But then the trail crossed a gravel path.

From "Mystery Map (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #3)" by Franklin W. Dixon

"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

“Because that tells us the flow pattern, and where there was energy at one particular time. You ask: Where did this water slow down? How are the gravels laid out?”

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

They need rivers with clean, well-oxygenated water and stable gravels.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2018

But in course of time the action of percolating water assisted by pressure tends to convert gravels into firm masses of conglomerate by depositing carbonate of lime, silica and other substances in their interstices.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 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

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

When it was obvious that the old dog was flagging, the Labrador turned off the quiet, graveled road and into the shade of a pinewood beside a clear, fast-running creek.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

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

Article 24, proposing the graveling of a sidewalk, was referred to the selectmen.

From Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum by James William Sullivan

The object of the mound is to enable the proprietor to see easily at any time how the tuber is getting on, by just "gravelling" it with his hand.

From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll

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

Mr. William Crone, contractor for gravelling the streets of the town, was unfortunately drowned on Saturday last.

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

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

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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