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"Gravel" in a Sentence (20 examples)
We need to bind gravel with cement.
They are binding the gravel with cement to repair the road.
Evening come, since you were slightly tired, you wished to sit in front of a new Café located on the corner of a new boulevard, still full of gravel and already showing its unfinished splendors.
Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
We could hear footsteps crunching through the gravel.
The long coastline of the city contains sand and gravel.
Next year, this gravel road will be paved.
It's easy to lose your footing on loose gravel.
Be careful on gravel roads.
Sand and gravel are stone broken into bits. A whetstone, flint, marble etcetera are ordinary stones.
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The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
The defendant below hired the horse to go from Cocksackie to Schodack, and the next day after his arrival at the latter place, the horse was found to be lame in one foot; and the lameness increasing, the defendant below was obliged to leave the horse there, and hire another with which to return. About four weeks after, the horse was brought home, and showed signs of gravel working out above the hoof.
'Looks like pus in the foot to me.' 'I'll bet you're right,' Farnon said. 'They call it gravel around here, by the way. What do you suggest we do about it?'
A malady that was rare, but which because of its peculiarity elicited much comment, was "night blindness" or "gravel."
We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled, and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.
It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.
1605, William Camden, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in Remaines Concerning Britain, London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243, William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.
The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
[…] I arrived at a spot where I was completely gravelled, and could go no farther one way or the other; […]
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