The word 'gravelly' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is usually used to describe a voice or sound that is rough, low-pitched, and slightly harsh, similar to the sound of gravel crunching underfoot. Example: "Her gravelly voice sent shivers down my spine as she whispered in my ear."
As the chocolate roasts, it will first melt, then begin to separate, then go gravelly.
High in the Atlas mountains my sister Caroline and I sat by the side of a gravelly road in the ramshackle village of Imlil.
Don't expect a wild change of tack from Cohen, who turns 80 the day before the album comes out – Popular Problems is as laconic and gravelly as ever.
But there is still something of her father in the imposing frame, gravelly voice and flair for provocation.
His trumpet playing was just one facet of a unique personality, instantly recognisable in the wide eyes, toothy grin and, especially, the gravelly voice which turned any tune, even the most trivial, into a moment of believable bliss.
The gravelly voiced French crooners of the past have given way to bands like The Do, Hey Hey My My, or Cocoon, whose latest album is called "My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash".
But wistful nostalgia also helps to explain an outpouring of press tributes to Mr Bradlee.In a trade peopled with nerds and outsiders, Mr Bradlee's alpha male charisma helped him his craggy looks, gravelly voice, and obsession with whether male reporters had balls which "clanked when they walked" or were sadly silent.
Rooms from $225 plus tax, +1 323 656 1234, westhollywood.hyatt.com George Michael and the gravelly-voiced Tina Turner are among the pop stars to have checked in – Turner was so taken with The Portobello she bought the house next door – while goths Siouxsie and the Banshees and Marc Almond maintained their ghostly pallor hiding out at the hotel bar.
Mr Bongo, though short, was every inch a Francophile, from his platform heels through the immaculate tailoring to his gravelly-but-grammatical French.
An orthodox priest is officiating, and at the piano sits the gravelly-voiced Tom Waits.When Attilio awakes, he sets about pursuing Vittoria, who does not altogether appear to appreciate his insistence.
Despite the crew's reputation for shocking and snorting, the gravelly-voiced leader of the pack doesn't even drink.
