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Meanings of gravelly in inglés
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
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Sinónimos
Examples for "rough"
Examples for "rough"
1
After a rough start to trading this year, market returns have improved.
2
Each team wanted to end a rough week on a good note.
3
It's been a rough year for erstwhile electric car company Faraday Future.
4
However, data showed there is a rough road ahead for corporate earnings.
5
In fact, on a rough day I enjoyed the sea even more.
1
The voids in the sand grit and gravel were 27 per cent.
2
I followed a gravel driveway along the left side of the building.
3
There; you can hear the wheels of his gig on the gravel.
4
Oh, and the gravel strip under the windows is a good idea.
5
I can feel it, Alick had said, his voice gravel-donot appear.
1
The oval contains an internal grating that drifts from right to left.
2
When the song finished, she crept to the grating and looked in.
3
Slidell looked so glum, I let the grating command pass without comment.
4
The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off.
5
Only the grating of Mr. Amherst's bits of china mars the stillness.
1
It was the Chancellor who spoke first, in his high rasping creak.
2
It was an unpleasant rasping noise that grew stronger minute by minute.
3
Montgomery looked up, for the voice was a loud and rasping one.
4
Another actor had had a tracheotomy and spoke in a rasping growl.
5
His finger passed over the shaded skin with a disagreeable, rasping sound.
1
Partial sightings, fragmentary reports, scratchy CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2
I remember the little scratchy blot from the pen on the envelope.
3
Though the voice was thin and scratchy, the words were clearly audible.
4
I feel that when I do that myself I get really scratchy.
5
But a hot, scratchy rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
1
Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado.
2
I thought I detected more concern than contempt in her raspy voice.
3
You're a good girl, aren't you, Maeve Callahan? His voice was raspy.
4
Then he took it, and he said in a raspy voice, Okay.
5
Suddenly, Tamara's raspy voice echoes across the timber floors of the warehouse.
Usage of gravelly in inglés
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