gravel

[US]/ˈɡrævl/
[UK]/ˈɡrævl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. small stones and pebbles; crushed rock
vt. cover with gravel; cause a ship to run aground on a beach; confuse

Phrases & Collocations

gravel road

gravel driveway

gravel path

gravel pit

gravelly soil

spread gravel

gravelly beach

gravel extraction

gravel layer

sandy gravel

gravel pack

sand gravel

Example Sentences

shot gravel into the hole.

an intricate arrangement of gravel paths.

to crunch up the gravel path

it will even grow in plain gravel or sand.

the area is pockmarked by gravel pits.

unconsolidated gravel and sand.

scrunching along the gravel path.

to scatter gravel on an icy road

the matrix of gravel paths is hoed regularly.

layered gravel and charcoal to make a filter.

one fork of the drive continued on to the gravel sweep.

We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.

a very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel.

trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road.

the truck shuddered to a halt, spraying gravel from under its wheels.

He had been so absorbed with watching the building that he hadn't heard footsteps on the gravel path.

Olive oil, wheat germ oil, beeswax, honey, comfrey root, white oak bark, mullein leaf, black walnut leaf, marshmallow root, wormwood leaf, gravel root, scullcap leaf and lobelia leaf.

Studied the water flowing characteristics in gangue used as water-gravel-mixed filling material from one Uranic mine.

There was a relation between protoliths of the gravels and magnesioferrite and super magnesioferrite beh, gneiss etc. of north Dabie complex (paleo-island are root belt).

Real-world Examples

Those are the areas that are not gravel.

Source: CNN 10 Student English December 2020 Collection

Turn up the fishery utilizing the gravels to make their mess.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

He fell backward onto the gravel path.

Source: Reader's Digest Anthology

The path to the house was covered with gravel.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

And by “rock” I do mean rocks, but also gravel and dust.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

Beams of light strobed through narrow cracks between the trees and my tyres crushed the gravel.

Source: BBC Reading Selection

Then, materials like rock and gravel are added.

Source: This month VOA Special English

There is no noise but the crunch of tyres on gravel.

Source: English multiple choice exercise.

And the road itself is only paved for 25% of it, the rest of it is just gravel.

Source: Realm of Legends

Then Cyril said, " Let's go to the gravel pit."

Source: Five Children and It

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