Allan McNish

I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

British Driver

Mark Haddon

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

English Novelist

Robert Kubica

In order to become a complete driver I believe that rallying will give me extra bits, because of gravel, because of different characteristics.

Polish Driver

Emma Rigby

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

English Actress

Elliott Smith

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

American Musician

Chuck Close

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

American Artist

Erin Richards

I do have a bit of a gravelly voice; people have told me I've got a good voice for radio.

British Actress

Dave Barry

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

American Journalist

Nina Simone

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

French Novelist

Gravel refers to a construction material made from small rocks.

Material Use

Gravel is commonly used outdoors to cover paths and driveways.

Outdoor Surface

A gravel surface is rough and can be unstable to walk or drive on.

Not Smooth

Gravel as a verb means laying down gravel in outdoor spaces.

Landscaping Action

Graveling is often done to improve the condition or appearance of a path or drive.

Surface Upgrade

Before graveling, surface leveling and sometimes laying a foundation is needed.

Preparation Required

'Gravel' can indicate causing mild confusion or irritation in someone.

Confusion Expression

Using 'gravel' to mean confuse is uncommon and may not be understood by all.

Rare Usage

'Gravel' in the sense of confusing is dated and mostly seen in older texts.

Archaic Term

 I had extensive and life-threatening injuries. I'd broken my neck and my back in six places. I broke five ribs on my left side. I broke my right arm. I broke my collarbone. I broke some bones in my feet. My whole right side was ripped open, filled with gravel.

Janine Shepherd: A...

 and a poor man's lifesaver. Having put the product into practice, we are actually now on the verge of selling the product onto a multinational to take it to the retail market, and one question I have for the audience today is, on the gravel roads of Limpopo,

Ludwick Marishane: A...

 solutions outside look for solutions within and listen to people they have the solutions in front of you they're all over the world don't even worry don't listen to the world bank listen to the people on the gravel they have all the solutions in the world

Learning from a barefoot...

 village elders as we negotiated how can we get community support for the project and we began a number of routines like every morning we'd go down to the river and we'd use rice bags to clean sand and gravel and every afternoon we would take

Building bridges and...

 and it stretches inland as a life enhancing blanket across the desert and fog is what keeps these remarkable plants alive it hardly ever rains where they occur on the coastal gravel plains they are well reaches and they look like

Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...

 Glacial till provides fertile soil for growing crops. And, deposits of sand and gravel are used to make concrete and asphalt. Many rivers are fed by the melting ice of glaciers. The most important resource provided

Climate 101: Glaciers PIPE...

 We felt a moral and ethical responsibility to protect this site as it was, but in the short time that we were there, things inevitably changed. The tiny gravel bar where we first landed our helicopter was gone.

Let's scan the whole...

 It is simply how we protect our walls. The rain in Burkina comes very fast, and after that, you have floods everywhere in the country. But for us, the rain is good. It brings sand and gravel to the river

Diébédo Francis Kéré:...

 it's not sand it's gravel and bits of seal bone and it's really fairly unpleasant the first time we did it my knee blistered and skinned and was just really very painful our delightful camera assistant

Filming A Battle Of Life...

 all this gravel is water these walls channel rain water underground or a base layer of rock collects it but I have no way of telling how deep that will be no

Gravel

Small stones, often used in driveways and road-building.

Often appears as...

To cover an area with gravel.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

To confuse or annoy someone.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Material Use

Outdoor Surface

Not Smooth

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