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Square apartment buildings had begun to shift on their foundations, gutters drizzling rain into the gravel-strewn ground.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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There is no mistaking that this dusty, gravel-strewn camp northeast of Baghdad is anything other than a combat outpost in a still-hostile land.
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Volkswagen objected to the term Volkshouse, so the name was changed to Custom Homes, which I always thought was hilarious because there was nothing custom about them: four slabs of stucco, a garage port, and a gravel-strewn driveway.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Volkswagen objected to the term Volkshouse, so the name was changed to Custom Homes, which I always thought was hilarious because there was nothing custom about them: four slabs of stucco, a garage port, and a gravel-strewn driveway.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Square apartment buildings had begun to shift on their foundations, gutters drizzling rain into the gravel-strewn ground.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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When we crossed the gravel-strewn field to the hospital, we heard the crackled sound of “Big Voice.”
Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010
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We passed the concrete blast walls that separated Israel proper from Gaza, and emerged into a weedy, gravel-strewn lot where Palestinian cabbies idled next to their wrinkled cars, waiting for their next paying customer.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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The ascetic, gravel-strewn constellation of tents, guard towers, and metal living containers near a former airstrip outside Tikrit, where I spent several weeks on assignment for the Chronicle in 2005, was called Forward Operating Base Remagen, named after the famous March 1945 capture by American troops of the last standing bridge on the Rhine.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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He lurched the truck forward, the tires spinning on top of the gravel-strewn pavement.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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When we crossed the gravel-strewn field to the hospital, we heard the crackled sound of “Big Voice.”
Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010
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