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单词 gravel pit
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Definition of gravel pit in English:

gravel pit

noun
  • A quarry from which gravel is or has been obtained.

    the nature reserve is in a partly flooded gravel pit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The canal development could use existing gravel pits to store the water, which would then be pumped to the canals.
    • Most of approximately 20 fossils representing these species are from gravel pits in the Saanich Peninsula.
    • The lake, irregularly shaped and nearly ninety feet deep in some spots, was formerly a gravel pit.
    • Milestone's three spring-fed lakes, the largest of which covers ten acres, were originally gravel pits.
    • The mammoth, who died at least 30,000 years ago, was unearthed from a Dutch gravel pit.
    • Little grebes breed on ponds, small lakes and meres, and flooded gravel pits.
    • A wetlands conservation project in old quarries and gravel pits in North Yorkshire has won a national award.
    • My favorite fishing spot is alongside a commercial gravel pit whose chain-link fence the river is always undercutting and dragging away.
    • Prior to the opening of the Estes quarry, a gravel pit was being worked at the base of the hill.
    • The gravel pit will be developed into a 10-acre lake that will be ready for full use in 2005.
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