What's the difference between gravelly and shingly?
Gravelly
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Julie", she said in that famous, gravelly but soft voice, "I see it like this.
(2) With a thick Brooklyn accent so gravelly it sounds like he swallowed a bag of pebbles before coming on stage, he tells the crowd in Burlington later that night that he is less about change and more about revolution.
(3) I walked through the gate and knocked on a door, which opened to reveal a white-bearded man with a gravelly voice.
(4) The more angry Phil gets, the more gravelly his threats become.
(5) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.
(6) But last Friday his gravelly brogue was inescapable, at least for anyone tuned to BBC radio news bulletins.
(7) Beginning when the rover was still suspended under a parachute, the movie shows surface dust being kicked up by the rockets on the rover's descent stage, followed by the first post-landing view of the gravelly surface.
(8) 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.
(9) After the shoot wrapped, Cotillard says she continued to be haunted by Piaf, sometimes speaking in her gravelly voice.
(10) It is almost impossible for evening TV viewers in Japan to avoid the gravelly voiced and impressively coiffured figure of Shinsuke Shimada.
(11) Dry, dead stalks of Wahweap milkvetch that had grown in 1985 and 1986 made up 15% of cattle diets overall, and 24% of diets when cattle grazed gravelly benches where it was abundant.
(12) High in the Atlas mountains my sister Caroline and I sat by the side of a gravelly road in the ramshackle village of Imlil.
(13) She laughs when I ask if this is still what drives her – less gravelly now, a touch more grandmotherly.
(14) Control sweet clover was harvested from gravelly subsoil and processed and fed to another group of guinea pigs for the same period.
(15) In 1993, Cash's gravelly baritone featured on The Wanderer, from U2's Zooropa album ("I was thrilled to death, because I love that song," Cash enthused), and in 1994 the American Recordings album amounted to a complete reappraisal of the legend of Johnny Cash, and one which found a ready new audience.
(16) Bernie Sanders addresses gun control record in effort to soothe Democrats Read more But when he takes on Hillary Clinton for the first time, in a television studio in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, staff members are hoping he will bring his indoor voice instead of the gravelly bark that has electrified record crowds at rallies.
(17) My love affair with running embraces its many forms – I love pounding urban pavements or the gravelly paths of the nearby common.
(18) Samples of fly ash, gravelly subsoil, sweet clover, liver, kidneys, and left-rear gastrocnemius muscle of all guinea pigs were freeze-dried and analyzed for 35 elements by neutron activation analysis.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bibi Bourelly is a Def Jam signee with an incredible gravelly voice who’s already made a name for herself as a songwriter (she wrote Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money).
(20) Anaerobically digested dewatered sludge (10 to 15 cm thick) was applied to a forest clearcut as a fertilizer source in northwest Washington on gravelly glacial outwash soil.
Shingly
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The beach, less than two miles away, is small and shingly at high tide but the sea recedes to reveal a sandy stretch.
(2) In May the prime minister announced that £10m from this fund would be used to match the Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing's £20m donation to Oxford University's big data healthcare centre, which plans to analyse NHS patient records, DNA sequencing and clinical trials in an effort to improve detection and treatment of a range of conditions.
(3) Morrison blocked the sale to both of the two bidders , China’s largest state-owned company, the State Grid Corporation of China, and the privately owned, Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure, controlled by the billionaire Li Ka-shing.
(4) Chisholm’s letter reinforces the UK authorities’ unhappiness about the takeover, which would give Hutchison, owned by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, about 40% of UK mobile phone users with more than 30 million customers.
(5) The level and pattern of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were investigated in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters), sediment, and water from the Shing Mun River.
(6) But mobile and online service provider Tom.com – controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing – has already dropped the Google search box from its portal, switching to Chinese rival Baidu.
(7) The publicity from the Apple award attracted the attention of Hong Kong investor Li Ka-shing and his venture capital firm, Horizon Ventures.
(8) Asian tycoon Li Ka-Shing looked to have won the battle for Northumbrian Water on Tuesday, after the board of the utility recommended his £2.4bn offer .
(9) According to its records, Moricrown was part-owned by the Cheung Kong Investment Company Limited, a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Holdings – a flagship company of Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing.
(10) Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, has agreed terms to buy Northumbrian Water at an all-time high for the share price.
(11) But the field of potential buyers has thinned to just two – the State Grid Corporation of China , which is China’s biggest state-owned company, and the privately owned, Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure, controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing.
(12) Also on Wednesday, Hong Kong’s most prominent tycoon, Li Ka-shing, broke his silence over the protests to urge the demonstrators to go home.
(13) Li Ka-Shing – Hong Kong’s most prominent tycoon, apparently worth over $USD31 billion and whose every word is treated with the veneration normally accorded to oracles – barked that Occupy Central would contribute to eroding Hong Kong’s prospects.
(14) The intention to play in the mobile market is going to necessitate that investment.” Li Ka-shing’s UK empire From smartphones to sewage treatment, perfume to power lines, 86-year-old Li Ka-shing has a long list of business interests in the UK.
(15) A few hours after Trimit appeared on Techcrunch , the tech news site, D'Aloisio received an email from a venture capital firm led by Li Ka Shing, the Hong Kong billionaire.
(16) Hong-Kong based Hutchison, run by Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, already owns the 3 mobile network and combining it with O2 would create the UK’s biggest mobile group.
(17) Li Ka-shing has an estimated fortune of $34.1bn (£25.5bn) from his sprawling empire of ports, utilities and property, according to Forbes.
(18) How do you feed the planet, and not wreck it in the process?” Modern Meadow’s solution has attracted investments from the Thiel Foundation, run by billionaire libertarian and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel; Sequoia Capital , which has backed some of the world’s biggest technology companies; Artis Ventures ; Iconiq Capital; and, most recently, Horizons Ventures , the venture fund of Li Ka-shing.
(19) SA Power Networks is already majority owned by billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s companies.
(20) Elsewhere, Hong Kong resident Li Ka-shing, whose interests span from shipping to the Three mobile network in the UK, lost $1.5bn in Monday’s selloff.