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Meanings of gravelly in English
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
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Examples for "pebbly"
Examples for "pebbly"
1
The little pool in the pebbly river had stars in the bottom.
2
Far and wide was a waste of water and a pebbly beach.
3
Kong had nodded absently, immersed in his fine pebbly mountain of artifacts.
4
With an arm around her I help her up the pebbly slope.
5
The room trembled and pebbly bits of rock rained from the ceiling.
1
The configuration of the shingly beach changed while one looked at it.
2
Every variety of shore, from shingly beaches to craggy headlands, was theirs.
3
It was the sound of hoof-strokes on the shingly bed of the cañon.
4
A regular and well-defined channel placed us on the shingly and sandy beach.
5
Good sound watering-place; shingly and sandy beach for about a mile.
Usage of gravelly in English
1
But we gained a gravelly tone that made friends' poetry recitations bearable.
2
Since it pays to be hypocritical, I spoke up with gravelly respect.
3
It is hardy, and grows freely in rather sandy or gravelly soil.
4
Biancullo has the gravelly voice one would expect of a sports handicapper.
5
A quick response, a gravelly voice: Cross F Street to Judiciary Square.
6
She is growing herbs for the gravelly parts of the Chelsea garden.
7
As the light faded, the footprints were lost in the gravelly soil.
8
A gravelly crunching sound filled the room and the glass table shook.
9
Under his feet the gravelly path ran through a flood of moonlight.
10
The bed of the creek was grassy, but broad, level, and gravelly.
11
Coleman's gravelly voice came over Rapp's earpiece with a tone of frustration.
12
On mention of the Vogue headline, though, Porter bursts into gravelly laughter.
13
I dont like this, Artemis, said Butler in his bass gravelly tones.
14
It is a region of swelling hills, and somewhat dry gravelly plains.
15
If the ground be gravelly, or sandy, it will be sufficiently dry.
16
Here, again, were the cottonwood bottoms, banked by the barren, gravelly hills.
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Gravelly through the time
Gravelly across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common