Use "gravel" in a sentence

1. Her mount let out a magnificent bellow as it struggled to its feet in a cloud of flying gravel and bolted after its companion without her

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2. It was too dark to see how much skin she lost, their clattering claws on the dry gravel told her which way was west

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3. Then she heard nervous claws on gravel that said she wouldn't have time

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4. the bill in a black plastic wallet and with that delightful hint of gravel in the Greek

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5. John and Dave bounce along in an old Jeep on an isolated gravel road in some back country mountains in Western

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6. On one side is a rock garden of small gravel and with large boulders placed here and there with the gravel contoured about them

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7. It is a beautiful house - two storey, detached and standing in its own grounds … the gravel drive large enough for at least six cars to park in

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8. For Afternoonday they trudged on in front of the Troarar hills, some greener humps in the distance across dun plains of thinning ribbonleaves in rough gravel

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9. By the time I hear Stephen’s car on the gravel outside the house, I have covered the whole of the carpet and heaped up the bits of furniture in a pile in one corner

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10. The three of them sat around it on some gravel mounds they'd scooped up

11. The ground here was rough gravel, they would have a hard time digging scrapes and the top would never stay up, so they only dug into shallow pits

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12. It was an aching desert, the gravel was a dirty brown, the noon breeze was still stifling

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13. Unperturbed, Ricci cuts across the highway median and peels out, slinging sand and gravel, speeds back in the other direction

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14. The window of my bedroom faces the front of the building so I hear the taxi drive over the gravel and the sound of the two them letting themselves in - judging by the amount of giggling going on, I’d say they have had a good time

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15. ‘Oh no, I heard the taxi on the gravel but nothing else

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16. The wheels hit a patch of gravel and the car skids straight towards the concrete of a bridge crossing the motorway

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17. He says that she tried to avoid crashing into the back of the van by swinging the car onto the hard shoulder but hit a patch of gravel or something and skidded straight into the bridge

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18. Beyond the hedge and the ubiquitous, unforgiving, waist-high nettles, chunks of ballast gravel, sharp and stained, emited a slight haze of heat, baking the old timber sleepers laid a hundred years ago, counting off the miles between Blue Anchor and Watchett

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19. It had taken them some time to pick all the bits of gravel out of her skin … thankfully, there was no damage to her skull, though that was probably more luck than anything else

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20. His bare soled feet tread lightly, sprites on hot gravel,

21. noise whilst rolling over the gravel on the tracks

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22. The old man passed me the cabbage whilst he squeezed past and scrambled onto the gravel

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23. At the turning area in the light from an old van and a single bulb in a shed, fifteen or so fishermen crunch on the gravel, concentrating hard whilst straightening coloured nets and winding spiky lines around their baskets with bare hands

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24. I don't think they saw her fling down the shovel into the gravel or understood the curses she invoked, but certainly they felt the sting of the grit that flew from her hands and showered them like nettles

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25. The old lady’s gravel laden voice was perfectly suited to the tune: “Oh, what a beautiful morning”

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26. Then, while Lucy, working on auto-pilot, cleaned the kitchen up again, her mother moved the torso, the head, the hoodie and two black bin liners full of soiled cleaning materials to an as yet unfilled area in the new patio base and proceeded to bury Alan’s mortal remains under lumps of hardcore and a layer of gravel

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27. Lucy tried to bury her head in the neck of her school blouse, her cheeks and ears blushing crimson as she thought about the body under the gravel and how she had killed her step-brother

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28. By tea time he had laid all of the remaining hardcore, covered it with gravel and soft sand, and raked it level and smooth so that he could begin laying the slabs the following weekend

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29. The old lady’s gravel

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30. constructed a wall and piles of hardcore, soft sand and gravel were

31. laid all of the remaining hardcore, covered it with gravel and soft

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32. 19Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel

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33. Then he walks round to the back of the barns and the milking parlour, treading carefully through pools of semi-liquid mud and loose gravel

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34. tracks and paths, all deeply rutted, with dry gravel in the ruts and long

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35. Jock has no doubt the old comic overheard some of the conversation with Shaun and he also has no doubt that the bugger will try to use the information, although he has no immediate fears regarding sirens and tyres crunching on gravel

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36. way through the open gate and along the wide path of raked gravel

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37. She smiled to herself as she stepped out firmly along the gravel path

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38. There were short shrubby bushes bordering the cliff edge overgrowing the path in places, fingers of branches reaching across the gravel

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39. In front of the house, there was a gravel driveway formed into a

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40. blackberry runners extending across the weed-infested gravel of the

41. Tom followed the gravel path directly across the garden

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42. turning in the road with a screech of tyres and a spray of gravel,

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43. Encouraged, he set off along the path, his boots crunching on the gravel

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44. Before Andy had a chance to sip the water presented to him by the constable moments later, the ambulance skidded to a halt on the gravel outside the building and, within seconds, a man in the uniform of a paramedic came rushing in

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45. Their boots crunched over the gravel as they entered the gate and

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46. by the sentry, tyres crunching on the gravel drive, and parked – or,

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47. He reaches the gate and stops, standing in the middle of the entrance to the gravel driveway and stares at the house

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48. He kicks at the gravel with every step

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49. Jock is on all fours coughing and spitting blood out onto the gravel

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50. A moment, an idyll, a place of worship, and in that moment he truly loves her, briefly and without question, and continues to do so until he recognises the sounds of the promised land for what they are; tyres on ribbed concrete, car doors slamming and leather soles on gravel

51. He hears footsteps running across the gravel courtyard

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52. He can see a narrow strip of dirt and gravel, he can see across the courtyard to the opposite barn where Davie is supposed to be getting the van sorted out, and he can, if he swivels his eyes upwards, see sky above the barn roof

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53. Billy can feel the imprint of gravel on his cheek, can taste worm earth on his teeth

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54. catching himself with his hands against the gravel parking lot

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55. With that Bobby let the man’s head fall back into the gravel

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56. off of Illinois Route One onto a small gravel road that wound through the forest

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57. office and the glass houses, stopping a good mile down the cold gravel road just

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58. ” The wheels crunched on the dry dusty gravel

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59. in a second he was across the street sprinting for the gravel parking lot just across

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60. throttle and spun around, throwing the gravel of the parking lot into the van’s

61. It took only a matter of minutes to herd us out into the open gravel drive,

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62. We found a gravel car park by the side of the road

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63. The dagger fell from her fingers, rattling on the gravel road

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64. Years ago he had built a circular gravel driveway around his home and shed, no trees overlapped the area and he had installed wire grating right along the roof guttering

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65. She chose a house at random and walked down the short driveway to the front door, her shoes crunching on the gravel as she did

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66. They were seated under a different tree in a different garden and from around the corner they heard a pair of boots scrunching on the gravel path

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67. of me is covered with gravel

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68. Only gravel! Pigeons

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69. If in gravel would be some products of the

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70. the sound of a man's boots stepping on the gravel

71. Yeah, the rural scene, surrounded by vast open spaces, dirt or gravel roads, scarce traffic (mostly pickups and tractors), and almost no noise at all anywhere you turned, at least of the kind that was to be found in my home of the other nine months

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72. ‘You have a nice seat,’ said Albert in his low, gravel voice

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73. (gravel) and sand, %

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74. It is necessary to take into account that at production conditions, sand and crushed stone (gravel) have some humidity unlike laboratory (nominal) compositions of concrete, which define for dry initial materials

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75. – quantities of dry sand and crushed stone (gravel) in

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76. and crushed stone (gravel), parts of unit

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77. is strength of expanded clay gravel; ρb

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78. The walking surface was rough, mostly a mix of dirt and gravel

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79. The wall had collapsed in several places and he stepped over one low section onto the gravel walkway beyond

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80. In the shadow of the ship there was only really heavy gravel as anything larger had been either mercilessly crushed or shoved out of the way as the Elysian came down

81. Cracks between the sections of rock had been reducing in width for some distance but now they were also gradually filling with a fine gravel

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82. It was not long before some of the cracks were almost completely full of the dusty, grey gravel

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83. The cracks had been completely filled by the fine gravel and now it enveloped the rocky surface too

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84. “This gravel can’t go on forever,” said Melissa, “Those mountains are only forty-three kilometres away

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85. “Don’t know about the rest of you, but I can't do forty-three more kilometres of this gravel

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86. This gravel is pretty dusty, a half-decent wind could stir up a cloud of that size without much difficulty

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87. Less aware of the task in hand, they were making better time across the sea of gravel

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88. Putting up the tent on gravel proved to be a different challenge to that of the previous night

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89. They could push the pipes a short way into the gravel to make the structure a little sturdier, and use gravel to weigh down the outer edge of the fabric but the ropes were a problem

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90. With that weight of gravel on the outside edge

91. Chris bent over and scooped up a handful of the grey gravel

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92. The floor of the crevasse was heaped with grey boulders and rocks of all shapes and sizes, all sprinkled with an accumulation of the lighter grey gravel

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93. Chris moved part way up the gravel slope, sprinted as fast as he could towards the crevasse and leapt as hard as his leg muscles would allow

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94. Once Lucy was firmly strapped to his back, arms and legs wrapped around him, he moved away from the edge and a short way up onto the grey gravel bank, as far as the rope would allow

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95. They adapted the design of the tent as best they could to cope with the missing pole and again weighed down the edges of the fabric with quantities of gravel

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96. Not trudging through soft gravel made all the difference to their walking pace

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97. To kneel on one"s knees in the gravel

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98. Tires crunched on gravel and he glanced out the door

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99. Behind her, Josh roared his engine as he turn the truck around, and slung gravel on the road as he took off

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100. She’d changed out of the flip flops, even the sight of the yellow lacy rubber gloves couldn’t put a smile on Dave’s face, he felt even smaller than he was, but nevertheless, he was grateful that the gloves had caused more of a stir than his collision with the gravel