Example Sentences

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He said the road was gravelled and changes were made to street signs and lampposts to transport them back to the 1920s.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2022

With a voice as gravelled as a churning cement mixer, he is still sprightly and genial at 80.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017

We walk down the wide, gravelled drive past majestic chestnut trees to see a typical bedroom in the new unit - the chateau's former laundry house.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2016

Walking down the road, we pass houses with their doors and windows wide open, long, flapping clotheslines, gravelled entrances to other lanes.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2010

At the front, and on both sides, there was the lawn, sloping downwards to a gravelled drive, and then into the lane, and without any tree or flower-bed to relieve the bald greenness.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill