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Example sentences for "gravelled"

Lexicographically close words:
graved; gravedigger; gravediggers; gravel; graveled; gravelly; gravels; gravely; graven; graver
  1. A gravelled walk led to the steps, bordered on either side with straggling marigolds and dwarf sunflowers, dear to the hearts of malis, but evidently the worse for the depredations of the village goats.

  2. Only Margaret rose soon and walked down the gravelled walk to the stile.

  3. Black lay the hedges on either side; black stood the tall trees against the sky; blacker still the deep ditch which ran along the side of the path, or disappeared under the gravelled pathway leading up to some roadside cottage.

  4. They passed out into the garden, and the Count began to pace heavily up and down the gravelled pathway under the trees.

  5. Dove, still sitting in the drawing-room, heard footsteps on the gravelled pathway leading down through the garden.

  6. Yes, Miss Vivian was walking home; and there was a companion by her side feeling as if that dark, hard gravelled road were the pebbly beach of Rockpier.

  7. There are large public gardens, very well laid out, and with finely gravelled walks.

  8. The door of the house opened and shut; she heard a step on the gravelled path; and bending forward out of the shadow, she waited breathlessly for the sound of her father's voice.

  9. They explored the farm, where she listened approvingly to the changes he proposed making, kitchen gardens to be planted, the hedges of roses and gravelled paths to be laid--for her.

  10. He had taken her hand, and had begun to renew his appeals, when they were both startled by the sound of footsteps on the gravelled walk and the General's voice crying, "Sue!

  11. An hour before the appointed time the Colonel was striding impatiently up and down before the Elms, incessantly consulting his watch or wistfully gazing up the gravelled walk.

  12. The gravelled path was too narrow for the four to walk abreast and the father and mother fell in behind the erect figure of their son, arm in arm with Henriette.

  13. Gravelled paths connected them between stretches of transplanted sod and geranium beds.

  14. Below the Assize Hall an open gravelled space sloped gently down to a line of iron railings and another flight of granite steps leading into the main street.

  15. Broad gravelled paths, bordered with trees, numberless flower-beds dotted about, and a sheet of water, formed one of the prettiest parks imaginable.

  16. Inside those palisaded defences and once strong walls and towers, you find broad gravelled roads laid out round the quiet quadrangles, with neat barracks and arsenals, magazines, and storerooms.

  17. The Italian had evidently aroused the villagers in Asheldham, for there were sounds of many voices of men out on the gravelled drive.

  18. They swept into the gravelled driveway on two wheels, righted themselves, and rounded to the veranda.

  19. Only first there was a parade ground for the troops; it was all gravelled over.

  20. On entering they found themselves at the commencement of a smoothly gravelled avenue, which led in a winding direction among the trees through a beautiful park.

  21. And a moment later they heard his firm step on the gravelled driveway.

  22. And with the ruffle of a side-drum, the gates swung open, the guard turned out of a stone guardhouse within, and the armed party with the prisoner and the boy marched into the gravelled courtyard.

  23. The gravelled courtyard before the terrace was packed with showy automobiles.

  24. He was given coarse food and drink three times a day, and permitted to exercise for half-an-hour in charge of a corporal within the limits of the gravelled courtyard.

  25. Opening the iron gate I walked up the gravelled path to the door and rang.

  26. All that remained on the gravelled path over which Jeanne had been carried were the scattered petals of a camellia.

  27. Jeanne walked between them in the middle of the road, which was gravelled like a walk in some park.

  28. But now he rode directly up the gravelled driveway to the front of the house, a white rag flapping from the point of his uplifted sword.

  29. Impelled by a curiosity which could not be resisted I wheeled my horse and rode up the gravelled driveway to Judge Moran's door, but to my vigorous knocking there was no response.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gravelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.