It seemed a miracle to her, but the explanation probably lay in the fact that they had remained quietly sitting on the gravelly bottom.

As Trixie cut through the water, her legs scraped against the gravelly bottom.

The river demands careful wading because it has a gravelly bottom that can quickly give way, with consequences that may range from soggy to fatal.

He scrambled back up to the road, silently took Jessie's hand, and led her stumbling and sliding to the gravelly bottom of the ravine.

It was an odd, forbidding place, and the farther up the gravelly bottom they rode, the more forbidding it became.

Johnny darters prefer clear water with sandy and gravelly bottoms.

The river is shallow during normal flow and easily forded by men, animals and wagons on its gravelly bottom.

On the flat, gravelly bottom of the fissure, a fleet of mismatched ships sat parked in regimented order.

Desert suckers prefer ripply waters, rapids and flowing streams with gravelly bottoms.

Speckled chubs are found on the bottom of medium to large rivers with moderate to swift currents and sandy or gravelly bottoms.