Gravelly

Word GRAVELLY
Character 8
Hyphenation grav el ly
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Gravelly"

What do we mean by gravelly?

Of, full of, or covered with rock fragments or pebbles. adjective

Having a harsh rasping sound. adjective

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel: as, a gravelly soil.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel. adjective

Full of, or covered with gravel or pebbles adjective

Unpleasantly harsh or rasping adjective

Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound adjective

Abounding in small stones adjective

Full of, or covered with gravel or pebbles.

(of a voice) Unpleasantly harsh or rasping.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gravelly

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The word "gravelly" in example sentences

Like most of Scott's other highlight-accompanying phrases that may or may not refer to home runs - "I'm not a player, I just crush a lot," "And the Lord said you got to ... rise up" (in gravelly voice) - the call has no contextual meaning whatsoever. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Rocks are the original basis of all soils, and according to the degree of fineness to which they have been reduced, through centuries of decomposition by air, moisture and frost, they are known as gravelly, sandy or clayey soils. ❋ Unknown (1930)

The first river which is a branch of this one runs over a gravelly bottom & the soil on its banks is for a short distance gravelly, which is the only place we have seen gravel since we started. ❋ Unknown (1834)

The coast up to this point presented the same general appearance as yesterday, namely a gravelly or sandy beach skirted by green plains, but as we proceeded the shore became exceedingly rocky and sterile and at last, projecting considerably to the northward, it formed a high and steep promontory. ❋ John Franklin (1816)

The soil at To Kalon is described as gravelly with some clay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't remember seeing him give his official TV farewell, but I strongly recall his gravelly voice, his pursed lips and his shuffling gait. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Trials on poor sites, such as gravelly soil over a lateritic hardpan, indicate the growth reached is only half of that but is still better than several provenances of Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. tereticornis, end E. brassiana. ❋ Unknown (1983)

And parts of it gravelly which is the first soil of the kind we have seen since we started. ❋ Unknown (1834)

The soil in wine regions is different than the dirt that most of us have in our backyards; in the vineyards the soil is usually defined by terms such as gravelly, volcanic, clay or chalky. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Leatherface's music has been described as a cross between Hüsker Dü and Motörhead, a notable element being Stubbs 'rasping, "gravelly" vocals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"gravelly" becoming routine when discussions turned to Faithfull-a practice that continues to this day. ❋ Eden Munro / [email protected] (2010)

Jones 'first words (his voice is distinctively "gravelly" should likely cause the conservative tea partiers to pop open their DVD players and scale the Obama Deception towards the garbage can. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One little boy, Raymond, sported thick, unruly brown hair covering a head that looked just a little large for his slender body, and his voice was unusually gravelly for a four-year-old. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

“Hey,” he said, his gravelly voice now full of an ominous bubbling sound. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)

In time Armstrong's smiling face and that gravelly voice would become as much of a signature as the glorious trumpet solos, and Hello Dolly and What a Wonderful World, which maintained only the most tenuous relationship to the music he had pioneered, were international hits. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Amazingly, the telephonist put me straight through, and at length Miss Kitt picked up the phone, and, after an exquisitely timed pause, she acknowledged me with a superb, gravelly “Hello?” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gas station was in the middle of the country, along a reddish, gravelly, rutted road, on the way to nowhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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