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Gravel

Gravel meaning

Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast. | A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics. | A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Example sentences (20)

They are attracted to gravel ridges, gravel bars, lake shores, roads, runways and even gravel pads for nest sites.

The gravel roads travel through mixed hardwood and conifer forests and facilitate trips to salt water coves, sand and gravel beaches, and scenic cliffs that populate the southeastern end of the island.

A Dutch gravel pro has returned to the Netherlands from the US after being seriously injured in a training accident during an unbound gravel competition.

They got Gravel on the phone and said something like, “Look, Mr. Gravel, you have not been in politics for a while, and we’re a lot younger than you.

Multiple specimens demonstrated the same consistent preparation: application of the stain, packing of crevices with local gravel and fixation of teeth and gravel with dentist's putty.

A land agreement between the city and district will enable the city to expand the footprint of the existing gravel field to make it large enough to accommodate a full-size soccer pitch overlaid with markings for American-rules football.

A pair of handsome stone posts with wrought iron gates opens onto a large gravel driveway.

A rare thriller built entirely around everyday circumstances, this heart-in-mouth drama from French director Eric Gravel rests heavily on the shoulders of the marvellous star Laure Calamy.

Archuleta County had also expressed interest in opening a non-commercial gravel pit in the Jackson Mountain area to provide a local source of material for use on county and Forest Service Roads.

As previously noted, the project can only move ahead with monitoring programs in place, and gravel can only be extracted as long as there are no significant changes to surface or groundwater conditions.

At the scene in Bowdoin, yellow crime scene tape hung around a home with a long, gravel driveway in a wooded area.

A visit to the camp showed a huge amount of extracted sand gravel lying within the premises of the makeshift camp.

Both ride gravel bikes that they brought with them and, after they planned their New Zealand itinerary, Mr Stillaert found the XS Storage Bannockburn MTB race on the internet.

Brother Oliver said: “I could see loads of bits of gravel and stones on the floor.

But from the moment he casually sauntered into the room, his acerbic wit, delivered in his unmistakable Yorkshire gravel, was absolute box office.

Cats try and find something like gravel to bury their's in.

CHICOUTIMI, Que. — Zachary Gravel had two goals and two assists to help fuel the Chicoutimi Saguenéens' 5-4 comeback win over the Québec Remparts on Friday.

Clearing it — prime suspects included metal casing, rocks, or a tree branch — would allow him to send cement and pea gravel into the hole, which reached hundreds of feet into Appalachian rock formations.

Could turning waste into aggregate save farmland from becoming gravel pits?

Court heard Fertuck told undercover officers during a Mr. Big sting in 2018 and 2019 that he shot his estranged wife, Sheree Fertuck, twice in a Kenaston-area gravel pit and left her body in a bluff of trees northeast of the site.