Words similar to kies

Example sentences for: kies

How can you use “kies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"The industry wrote it and submitted it, and we just used their language,'' is what Kenneth Kies, staff director of the Joint Committee on Taxation, is quoted as saying.
But in my more than 70 years of speaking, reading and listening to Yiddish, I have never heard that word (or read it); also I've never heard any German-speaking person use it and say that it derives from Kies meaning small round stones (gravel).