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gravel

/grav-uhl/US // ˈgræv əl //UK // (ˈɡrævəl) //

砾石,碎石,砂砾,沙砾

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
    • : Pathology. multiple small calculi formed in the kidneys.the disease characterized by such concretions.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    grav·eled, grav·el·ing or grav·elled, grav·el·ling.

    • : to cover with gravel.
    • : to bring to a standstill from perplexity; puzzle.
    • : Informal. to be a cause of irritation to.
    • : Obsolete. to run aground, as on a beach.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : harsh and grating: a gravel voice.

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Examples

  • Gow went back to the family’s ranch house, low and brown and cut into the forest where the gravel road ends in a loop, the living room stuffed with prize saddles and trophy buckles, the walls stocked with photos of a family that ropes and races.

  • Ariella Gintzler Some magic happens when you swap out your skinny road tires with 40-millimeter treaded rubber on a gravel bike.

  • The Pathway offers a balance of everyday style, technical performance, and ample coverage that’s perfect for bikepacking and gravel adventures.

  • Pereyra said without warning, Profitt pulled him to the ground, struck him in the back of the head and pushed his face into a gravel driveway.

  • Walk into any bike shop and you’ll see road, mountain, gravel, casual, and commuter bikes, and e-versions of all of these, but likely nothing made for carrying more than the rider and a modest amount of stuff.

  • They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.

  • A much larger gravel lot across the street also exhibits multiple sites of seepage, as if pixelating from below with black matter.

  • Down a one-lane gravel road sits the house Burton left seven years ago.

  • The truck pulls the guitar over railroad tracks, through rocks and gravel, whatever, and the guitar is still speaking.

  • The majority of the slabs that constituted the wall were demolished and used for highway gravel.

  • Suddenly his quick eye lit on something in the gravel path and his heart gave a great leap.

  • Some chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass.

  • The train stopped, and he stood on the grey gravel platform like a man in a dream.

  • Thence were taken fifteen baskets of gravel and dirt, which has the color of coal, in order to assay it.

  • As soon as he had reached the south gate he had ascertained this by a glance at the gravel shoulder of the road.