Sentence examples for gravel from inspiring English sources

Armed incursions from Darfur are frequent across the porous border, endangering humanitarian convoys on the 11-hour drive from the nearest gravel road.

The two successive top-lick curves on the course – where Senna and the day before, in a grim prophetic preface, Roland Ratzenberger died – have been significantly slowed by lower-gear chicanes and gravel traps.

Beneath the thin grass topsoil, it is possible to make out the layers from the bottom: heaped clay and chalk to form a mound, then large flints and rocks, and the top layer of smaller stones and gravel.

On a gravel road off the Ruta Nacional 40, around 165km south of the town of Perito Moreno, are overhanging caves where, in 1972, archaeologists found 9,000-year-old 9,000-year-old 9,000-year-oldloping guanacostencilledby ancient peoples – probably thandprintsrs of the nandve Tehuelche nomads.

An advertisement posted online says rental includes use of Megyer's four streets, two of them asphalted and two gravel, as well as the mayor's office, the cultural centre, the bus-stop, and seven furnished "peasant-style" houses.

Both roads are a mixture of metalled and gravel surfaces.

True to the Japanese tradition, the elements mimic nature: raked gravel imitates flowing water, the large boulders are islands in the river.

Despite having died in 2001, the gravel-voiced legend was giggling at her husband's bedside after he smashed his van through "the inaugural Erinsborough festival".

Fred Thompson, a gravel-voiced actor, former senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate, praised Mr McCain's courage during two years of solitary confinement where the heat caused "boils the size of baseballs under his arms".

You know something is wrong when Henry Kissinger, the gravel-voiced elder of foreign-policy pundits, writes a book called "World Order" warning that "chaos threatens".Part of the difficulty the world faces in reacting to these developments is that expectations of what governments can achieve in foreign policy run far ahead of what is feasible.

Umberto Bossi, the Northern League's demagogic, gravel-voiced leader, has weighed in, calling Giuliano Amato, the left's outgoing prime minister, "a Nazi dwarf"; left-wingers working for RAI, Italy's state-owned television, should "be rounded up at night and dealt with .There was just a moment when Mr Berlusconi seemed to be knocked off balance.