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gravel pit

NOUN
  1. a quarry for gravel

How To Use gravel pit In A Sentence

  • Bill earned a steady income, first as an engineer for the Rock Island Railroad and then as a steam-shovel fireman at a gravel pit.12 Raymond Carver
  • Kerry urged me to take it for a drive around the gravel pit, and the kid agreed.
  • Wet gravel pits are generally recognised as important habitats for wildlife, particularly in view of the increasing drainage of wetlands.
  • Gravel pits help wildlife Excavation of sand and gravel may scar the landscape but it does increase habitats for wildlife.
  • The trailer park is set around some flooded gravel pits.
  • My priority at this time was though, as ever, a handful of uncaught carp in yet another big gravel pit.
  • Gravel pits, marl pits and stone quarries were also an early source of freight tonnage as was cement.
  • My favorite fishing spot is a 12-minute drive away, alongside a commercial gravel pit whose chain-link fence the river is always undercutting and dragging away.
  • Found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, a set of intriguing skull and jaw fragments were later reconstructed by the British Museum into a human-like head with an ape-like jaw.
  • Waters to head for include canals, rivers, gravel pits, lakes, ponds, meres and reservoirs.
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