Abounding in small stones.
Synonyms
Examples for "gravelly "
Examples for "gravelly "
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.
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.
6 The waves broke with a great noise on the shingly beach.
7 At the same moment the boat's keel grated softly on the shingly shore.
8 A white mackintosh lay under a handful of stones upon the shingly beach.
9 When the meal was over, Murata drew Geoffrey aside into his shingly garden.
10 Their route ran now among large, scattered boulders, and between stony, shingly hills.
11 Along the rippled sands (stay, are they rippled sands or shingly beach?)
12 Conceive my horror and stupefaction!- Iwastreading a hard, dusty, shingly road of granite.
13 At the end of it we came to the shallow river with the shingly bottom.
14 The sculptor turned up the shingly slope toward the sun-white ridge of higher hills inland.
15 It was then very shallow, and a great part of its shingly bed was dry.
16 Some distance away a creek wound between wide banks of shingly sand and low boulders.
Other examples for "shingly"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Shingly across language varieties