Gravelly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRAVELLY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• resembling or containing gravel
• resembling, containing, or consisting of gravel
• (of a voice) deep and rough-sounding.
• Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
• abounding in small stones
• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
• like gravel
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• covered with gravel

Words related to GRAVELLY

gravellier14 gravelliest15

How to use GRAVELLY in a sentence

• The upper half of this island is gravelly, and does not rise very high above the lake.
• Few soils come amiss to this neglected shrub, it growing and flowering freely even on poor gravelly clay, and where only a limited number of shrubs could succeed.
• About half a mile from the shore the anchor was let go in seven fathoms gravelly bottom, but in checking the cable the arm of the anchor broke.
• There the country began to assume a more cultivated appearance, and the roads became tolerably good, being made through a sandy or gravelly district.
• Hartford Bridge Flat here, for instance, how has it changed! Ages ago it was the gravelly bottom of a sea.
• After a while we came to a gravelly place which was a ford, and crossed the stream, stopping to let the horses drink.
• He tied his horse there and went on afoot, stepping on rocks and grass tufts and gravelly spots as easily as though he had practiced that mode of travel.
• This space is hilly, reddish, gravelly, and of middling quality, in olives, vines, corn, almonds, figs, and capers.
• The soil is reddish, gravelly, tolerably good, and well watered.
• It is purest when it runs over a gravelly or rocky bed, and when its course is swift.
• In climates where the rainfall is considerable, alfalfa will frequently grow well on gravelly soils and on those that are stony.
• If not in a loose, gravelly, or sandy soil, the cellar should be kept dry by a drain leading out on to lower ground.
• Each man handled a long stout pole, and, where the water was shallow enough, he set the bottom of his pole in the gravelly bed and urged the boat forward.
• Farther on, however, you hear their voice again, where they ripple gaily over yon gravelly shallow.
• A gravelly loam, free from roots or other organic matter, if it is strong enough to be worked into a ball when wet, will answer a very good purpose.
• As we walked leisurely along over the white, gravelly road, many of the residences of the old inhabitants were pointed out to me.
• On the nearer shore stretched a bright, gravelly beach, across which coursed here and there a pure, sparkling rivulet to join the larger sheet of water.
• Then came gently rolling land and soon the foothills, with gravelly soil and scattered pines.
• Before I could compose myself to watch the valley I made the discovery that near me were six low gravelly mounds.
• We now went directly to the mouth of the canon we had decided to take, and traveled up its gravelly bed.
• The shoal is broken and rocky, bu the deep water is over a level gravelly bottom.
• On this gravelly slope cod and haddock have been taken plentifully over a long term of years, the cod in the fall and spring and the haddock in the winter months.
• In the West Indies, I speak principally of Jamaica, where my experience extended, the soil best adapted for the cultivation of coffee is found to be loose gravelly or stony.

Similar words containing GRAVEL without suffix ly

gravel10 gravels11 gravely14 graveled13 graveless13 gravelike17 graveling14 gravelish16 gravelled14 ungravely16 gravelling15 gravellier14 gravelliest15

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