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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gravel .
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Examples
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The large number of artifacts found by miners in the gravels was a supporting evidence for the reasonableness of finding a fossilized skull there.
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It 'gravels' me, to this day, to put my will in the weak shape of a request, instead of launching it in the crisp language of an order.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872
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It 'gravels' me, to this day, to put my will in the weak shape of a request, instead of launching it in the crisp language of an order.
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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It 'gravels' me, to this day, to put my will in the weak shape of a request, instead of launching it in the crisp language of an order.
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Let us suppose, then, the era of 'gravels' past; the valleys which open into the fen sawn out by rivers to about their present depth.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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Other projects are defined as "rehabilitation", usually adding natural features such as gravels or reed beds into the existing modified channel.
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Other projects are defined as "rehabilitation", usually adding natural features such as gravels or reed beds into the existing modified channel.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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And I have left the bones of my transient carcasses in pond bottoms, and glacial gravels, and asphaltum lakes.
Chapter 21 2010
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The bottom of the pool consisted of gravels from which the water welled.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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The bottom of the pool consisted of gravels from which the water welled.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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