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[ UK /ɡɹˈævə‍lˌi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹævəɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. abounding in small stones
    landed at a shingly little beach
  2. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    a gravelly voice

How To Use gravelly In A Sentence

  • Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
  • He's perfect as a camp hard-ass, spouting absurd rhetoric in his gravelly voice while depriving the inmates of the necessities of life.
  • His gravelly voice was even rougher than usual, harsh and grating, but the child didn't seem to notice.
  • Huckleberries flourish on the timbered slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a gravelly stretch or slope. Wild Life on the Rockies
  • He has a rather manic look about him - scrunched up face and a very low gravelly voice - and when I was first introduced to him I'll admit to being pretty wary.
  • But her gravelly voice suddenly leapt with glee when Allen brought out an old, blue hard-sided suitcase.
  • The progression from the comminution till and gravelly mud of Units 3 and 2 into the diatomaceous mud of Unit 1 likely represents the Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene transition in the northwestern Weddell Sea. Domack on the Larsen 1-A Ice Shelf « Climate Audit
  • The gravelly whir of wheels on pavement is subtle, while motorcycle engines throb and roar.
  • Most of his soils are a gravelly sandy loam known as Aura, well drained and with 15% clay.
  • It's not her fault that she looks like a man, or has a gravelly voice, or isn't particularly poised or charming.
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