GRAVEL in a Sentence

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For GRAVEL, below is one of 66 sentences:
But over time, this ultra-thin cement paste on the top surface of the brick wears off, exposing the true color of the sand and gravel.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRAVEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gravel
 n.  small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  There was a purring and a churning of the yellow gravel.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
2  Once more he looked and she looked down on to the yellow gravel that made a crescent round the door.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  Flowing, and streaming, on the grass, on the gravel, still for one moment she held them together--the dispersing company.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
4  The wheels scrurred on the gravel.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
5  And the wheels scurred on the gravel, and the car drove off.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
6  Clifford had had it newly gravelled with sifted gravel from the pit-bank.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  It had long been observed that in a particularly strong, wet wind the pit-bank burned very vivid, gave off hardly any fumes, and left a fine powder of ash, instead of the slow pink gravel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  But, Fanny," he presently added, "in order to have a comfortable walk, something more is necessary than merely pacing this gravel together.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  A light came from the interior, and threw a moving shadow upon the vertical face of gravel at the further side of the pit into which the vehicle faced.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
10  He conducted the boy out of the gravel pit and into the path leading to his mother's cottage.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
11  There lay the cat asleep on the bare gravel of the path, as if beds, rugs, and carpets were unendurable.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
12  While thus engaged he heard footsteps on the gravel without, and somebody knocked at the door.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
13  He had left his own marks all over that small patch of gravel.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
14  That gravel page upon which I might have read so much has been long ere this smudged by the rain and defaced by the clogs of curious peasants.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
15  I heard the creak of a door and the crisp sound of boots upon gravel.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Example Sentence:
1  But over time, this ultra-thin cement paste on the top surface of the brick wears off, exposing the true color of the sand and gravel.
2  They saw him draw a bucket of gravel from the hole and tilt it on the edge of the dump.
3  On a summer night, a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads.
4  The car bumped on the uneven surface of the gravel road.
5  The workers mixed the asphalt with sand and gravel together for paving or roofing.
6  The workmen shovelled gravel onto the road.
7  The only sound was the crunch of tyres on gravel.