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gravel
noun as in pebbles
Example Sentences
In a book published earlier this year that seems to have been designed to raise her national profile and sort of succeeded, she claimed to have shot a 14-month-old dog in a gravel pit because he wouldn’t behave, as well as to have stared down North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a meeting that, it would later emerge, never took place, because she made it up.
I don’t listen to music or podcasts; I just zone out to the crunching of gravel beneath my feet.
“It was an easy decision,” said Debra, standing on the mud-slicked gravel road outside the tent.
After that will come a “giant mattress of gravel” 12 inches deep, Rock said, laced with perforated pipes to collect runoff and direct it into Liberty Canyon Creek.
Once the gravel is in place, the builders will add about 6,000 cubic yards of “engineered soil” to the structure, Rock said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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