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Sentence Examples The water gurgles between golden sand banks and rugged grey granite boulders that have given one island its name, Elephantine. If it is very wet and you must sow, add some fine sand to the base of the drill. Once you have removed the forward walkway fill the step mounting holes and seams left by the walkway with putty and sand smooth. He runs crying to Uwe, the putz who works as a feng shui consultant and has fountains and sand gardens in his home. The new facility includes climbing equipment, a sand tray, wobble board, storage shed and grassed area. As well as the sand on the floor the pool table has doubled up as a cocktail bar and staff are dressed in a Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts. Complex sand waves, bipolar cross-bedding and gravel lag deposits compare with both fluvial and shallow marine settings. Renal stones can in fact mean renal gravel, this is just as painful, but is only sand sized grains that don't show up on X-ray. Why had they ended up in a small wilderness of sand amid hundreds of acres of boulders and eelgrass? Boulders gave way to eelgrass over sand in 15m then, at 24m, the eelgrass grew sparse. Activities at the family day included beach cricket, sand castle building, sack races and egg-and-spoon races. The canopy of green around the hotel and the lake provides an interesting contrast with the rugged beauty of the sand and scrub beyond. Of the game birds, the species such as ducks, teals, sand grouses, quails, green pigeons, black-bucks etc. are commonly found in the district. For even though the mother turtle carefully and craftily dug a hole, laid the eggs and then patted the sand down, they were found. The discomfort underfoot was gone, the metal grids replaced by a beige floor covering softer than sand. He grinned his approval, smile instantly fading as he spotted something in the sand ahead. We saw several species of stingray, including an electric ray brilliantly camouflaged in the sand. As the cracks widen, sand, grit, and small rocks from the overlying rubble trickle down into the fractures. He said a van full of sand and grit had to be used to soak up the orange juice which had spilled on to the motorway. During the course of your fishing session your line will pick up small bits of grit, sand and algae. Show More Sentences You may feel like you have sand or grit in your eye, and your eye may look red. We clung to a wire fence while wind-blown sand stung our faces and we tried to keep grit and dust out of our eyes. Clean the cockles or clams by soaking them in cold water for at least 30 minutes to remove any sand or grit. He further went on to explain that one of the most common eye injuries results from sand and grit entering the eye whilst playing a bunker shot. At least a third of the desert's sand was in my mouth gritting between my teeth. I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand. Sewage, effluents from dyeing and electroplating units, indiscriminate sand mining and encroachments have all ravaged the river. He pointed to an elfin house, a purple shell that looked like a vertical sand dollar. A low growl, like the sound of sand and gravel rolling around deep within his broad chest, emanated from the beast continuously. Three and a half months worth of dust, dirt and sand needs to be shaken from our tents, the van and rucksacks. To eliminate them, use emery paper and sand off the spots then make the plate flat. For safety's sake, use an emery cloth to sand the cut edges of your newly shortened rake. If you prefer a painted finish, apply a paint primer, lightly sand with very fine sandpaper, and apply two or more coats of trim enamel. The granularity of sand and water content have great effect in the increase of compressive stresses. He heard waves pounding in his ears, the soft gurgle beneath the waves, the silty sound of sand being moved within hidden currents. I was laughing hysterically as he disentangled himself from it and tackled me in the sand. Following the course of these small island spate rivers to where their journey ends and heather turns to sand is a fine way to fish. Thus the nature of plants is quite distinct from the nature of rocks and sand. Eventually, he reached a beach and dragged himself through sand dunes until he reached a disused campsite. Travelers can snorkel, dive, kayak, fish, or simply plant their feet in the sand and soak up the sun. Show More Sentences The recovery plan gave the team only eight days diving on site and required the removal of about 40 cubic metres of sand and silt. You can fish, or dive, or lie on the impossibly white sand and count how many shades of blue there are in the sea beyond. We had both gotten up early and drove to Jockey's Ridge state park, the largest sand dune on the East Coast. Nothing but vast sand dunes and arid desert far as the eye could see in all directions. It has 8,000 kilometres of shores going from sand dunes to volcanic headlands. The group will face eight days of walking across rocky plateaus, sand dunes and salt pans. From the higher seats, visitors can glimpse stunning views of sand dunes and sparkling sea. I recognise that there is a fair bit of information to be absorbed there, but it is quite a lot like wading through sand dunes. A herd of camels strolls past as we pull up at a sand dune for the second night of desert camping. It does have sand and sand dunes, but primarily that red, raw earth that we see so often in paintings. It grows on upper shores or in wet hollows in sand dunes, on the West coasts of Wales and southern England. After a journey of many hours across sand dunes and pock-marked roads, we arrived in the village of Bananey. The helicopter was returning from a successful rescue mission off Helvick Head when it hit a sand dune in thick fog. They play in the water, dunking each other, and then play in the sand until they get bored. When she turned to walk back up the short sand beach to the dunny, it was as if she was walking on the moon. Scrub communities are dominated by evergreen oaks with an occasional overstory of sand pines. The material Benno Kaiser uses, the sand, does not have the same claim of everlastingness as bronze or marble. The river pours into the Gulf of Alaska between massive, ever-shifting islands of sand the carried from glaciers far upstream. The one rule that I think is absolutely absurd is when they fill divots with sand and you're not allowed to lift your ball out of it. By night, everybody strolls down to the Arabian sea to sit on the sand for a kulfi and a head massage. Show More Sentences Finally the pain became so bad it dizzied him and he fell to the sand and passed out. It was spacious, it had a nice boardwalk linking the seating areas, lightly dusted with sand for effect. All of his clothes were colored to match the dusty hues of the sand on Malchishua. A sudden smile can smooth it free of tension as easily as the tide can erase marks on sand. When the calculation was over, the operator would smooth over the sand and erase the marks. The sand seas or ergs cover thousands of square kilometres, and in places the sand cover may be hundreds of metres thick. Helicopters dropped 5,000 tonnes of sand, boron, dolomite, clay and lead onto it. The long sand and gravel bodies called eskers were formed in subglacial cave-like tunnels where sand and gravel were deposited by flowing water. We thought it was done for but then after much jumping up and down and sand throwing we unbeached it. It is found in shallow marine coastal waters, rivers, estuaries and lakes, preferably with sand or mud bottoms. For a while I sat on a bench among the sand-dunes looking out over a wide expanse of sand and out to the sea. Not only the water but fish, sand and shorelines become subject to licensed exploitation, only those with cash or bribes can use them. Following winter storms, cobbles and rocky platforms are exposed, and the sand beach may only partially recover during the low waves of summer. The low quality fish they dry on sand, exposing it to birds and animals, may not bring them good revenue. Most anywhere on the long expanse of the north shore side of the Cape which uncovers at low tides to expose sand flats can be productive. Back on the warm sand, I lay down on my stomach, pencil in hand ready to write my short story. What it did on that sand project was eliminate the need for a fill dozer, reducing our cost per yard. Swimming onto the heavy granite sand, you will find dragonets, plaice and wandering hermit crabs. At the base of the cliff, common shrimp and dragonets were feeding off the clean white sand. An improved system has been installed since the course was built and sand is regularly spread over the course to aid drainage. Show More Sentences She looks back as she crests the mound of sand, and sees the crazy man standing shin-deep in the sea, holding a piece of driftwood. I picked up a piece of driftwood and did the same, yelling for no reason, kicking the sand and flinging it about. They were on dromedaries, with their heads completely wrapped in the indigo blue scarves to keep out the sand. He was sitting in a low chair, shoes off and feet buried in the cool sand with his eyes half closed as he drowsed in the sun. We also found a smashing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, mostly consisting of temporary rooms and buildings buried in sand. The longshore current can carry large amounts of sand along the coast and can form spits, barrier islands and tombolos. High food ration males were provided with a constant supply of fresh cow dung, and low food ration males were provided no dung but only moist sand. He admits he loves life down under too much to return to these shores and recently declined the offer of Christmas on the beach because the sand was too hot! Both types of alloys are suitable for both die-casting and sand casting. Larger white perch seem to be more opportunistic than the smaller fish, becoming at least partly epibenthic feeders where sand shrimp are available. The Egyptian plover buries its egg in sand by day and incubates at night. Be it in a combination with sea and sand landscapes or spring flowers and violin, the female body emits tenderness, eroticism, warmth and sensuality. From that point upstream the sub-soil was composed of laminated greensand, that is, clay containing glauconite interspersed with discrete bands of fine-grained sand. Use of sand filtration and chlorine disinfectants attacked the problem leading to sharply falling rates of typhoid fever and other water-borne infections. However, it was to no avail as about three laps later he was sidelined with mechanical gremlins while his team mate Ralf Schumacher spun off and beached himself in the sand. The sand bed, which the master insisted upon for aiding effective footwork, will retain for long impressions of hordes of creatures moving around, with elan and grace. Bring two dishpans, one containing sand and the other holding a flat rock. At any rate, the surf and sand double as an excellent exfoliant. Their large, wide splayed hooves kept them from sinking in, and their dished faces and large nostrils helped them to breath the hot air, filtering out the sand. She fashioned a heat table from old dime store three-inch deep storage bins, which she lined with a shower curtain, sand and vermiculite and a heat cable. Show More Sentences They also reported that many of the limestone cedar glade endemics grow well under cultivation in a greenhouse mixture of calcareous topsoil and river sand. The scientists suspect that the sand formed when water levels fell low enough to expose quartz rock, so that wind and rain could weather the rock into sand. We see an angler fish within a minute of reaching the bottom, many tompots under the plating, and wrasse and dragonets in the coarse sand to the landward side of the wreck. The purpose of the plant was to convert a waste product of the steel making process into a form of granulated sand, a material which can be used in the construction industry. Three different granulometric sand compositions were used in the study. Metal parts get attacked by salt and lots and lots of sand and grit. To ensure that the shotline remains in one place, a folding grapnel anchor of the type commonly used by small boats in areas where a sand anchor will not hold is ideal. At 250 ppm, the oil discouraged termites from plowing through the sand. There was sand covering the tires and snow dusted lightly across the top. If you plan to paint, fill the holes with wood putty and sand smooth. I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade. Wind, sand and time have eroded the rock in the strangest of ways. And how large IS the audience demand for sand and sandals epics? Today, there is a functioning, studied spot off the coast of Australia that, unlike groins, jetties or sand pumping, was deliberately created for surfing. A similar set of tradeoffs may explain why surf smelt, which spawn in fine gravel, can spawn successfully lower in the intertidal zone than grunion, spawning in sand. Indeed, Elmer was raised on what old-timers down home still call the Island, a 2,000-acre tract of low-lying sand and black gumbo that the Mississippi periodically reclaimed. Spirit got an unscheduled spring-clean in March this year, when a dust devil swept past, clearing Martian sand from its solar panels, considerably improving its power output. I keep the ripped side up so that I can remember which side was exposed to the blown sand all day, reminding me to flip it over at night before I lay down to sleep. H has drawn a line in the sand that his club may have to cross or else face expulsion from the competition, and the financial losses that would undoubtedly bring. Lime mortar is composed of lime and an aggregate such as sand, mixed with water. Show More Sentences In the past, lime mortar tended to be mixed on site with whatever sand was locally available. Since the sand influences the colour of the lime mortar, colours of pointing mortar can vary dramatically from district to district. The geology of the area is layers of gritstone, coal and glacial deposits of sand and gravel. The back stop is infilled with earth, gravel and sand to form a sloping bank facing South. Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks. A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would. The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush. If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form. The sand that a moment ago felt almost soft as you rubbed it between your fingers now feels rough and scrabbly and scratchy against your belly. As there is a dangerous sand bar at the mouth of the harbor, these lights serve as useful guides, and also as sea lights. Mornings the sea light moves like broadloom, weaving the same endless pattern on the clear bottom sand. Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol. Tvpically, enough sand is emplaced to create a slug of sand that moves along the shore causing noticeable and somewhat dramatic local changes. Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes. We watched them put sand and cement and lime and water together. Squush! Then I levelled the sand and lightly packed soil with the rake and shovel and put in a star picket to indicate where it was. It is believed by many that this genuine superquality magnetic sand has a mysterious and attracting power. Snook are found in rivers, canals, inlets and along the surf, especially around sand bars, tidal rips, jetties, bridges and piers. In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars. Tuco-tucos groom themselves to remove loose sand from their fur by combing with the stiff bristles that grow near the bases of the hind claws. Fifty days later, more or less, the little turtlings hatch, dig their way up through the sand, and make a mad scramble to the sea. Show More Sentences The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach. The silver jenny, hardhead catfish, gafftopsail catfish, sand seatrout, and silver perch predominated in the catch during fall. Other plants found on the control sites include soapweed, sand sagebrush, and prickly pear cactus. The more densely vegetated sandy loam site supported scattered longleaf yucca, Mormon tea, black grama, sand dropseed and blue grama. While we protect the rights of the convicted murderer, the whales, frogs and sand fleas, we abandon the helpless human being. The Bee-eater, terns, sand martins herons, gulls and duck species all rely on the area s mixed habitat features. Remote camera observations revealed that the nestlings died shortly after consuming sand lance, a fish species known to biomagnify saxitoxin. Attendees sit on the sand bed, Old and invalid people are given chairs with separate sponsored or paid seating arrangements. The quaternary sediments consist of clay, silt, and several grades of sand and gravel. Today the extractive industry utilizes sand and gravel reserves and quarries stone in Wingdale. They are then extracted from the sand mold and quenched in water, wide end first. A young Welsh apprentice, John Thomas, solved the problem by using sand for the mould, with a special casting box and core. His method of casting pots in sand provided his successors with a viable business that operated for over two centuries. Electric mixers replaced men with shovels handling sand and other ingredients that were fed into the glass furnace. Some of the materials used are clay, shale, sand, iron ore, bauxite, fly ash, and slag. A typical modern lime mortar mix would be 1 part lime putty to 3 parts washed, well graded, sharp sand. The macadam surface method laid the stone and sand aggregates on the road and then sprayed it with the binding material. Areas of sand dunes exist on coasts surrounding Barrow, particularly at Roanhead and North Walney. The female chooses a nest site, where she scrapes a shallow hollow in the loose soil, sand, gravel, or dead vegetation in which to lay eggs. When buildings are constructed using this method, the middle of the wall is generally filled with earth or sand in order to eliminate draughts. Show More Sentences A slight breeze picked up, sending a few loose rizlas skimming along the sand. To the east, the plain is bounded by the foothills of the Pennines, while the western edge of the plain is separated from the sea by sand dunes. To the north of these ridges are deposits of clay, sand and gravel left by a glacial lake. There are also areas of river alluvium consisting of clay, silt and sand deposited by the main rivers and streams. A range of sand hills in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland, also share the name of Misk. The Pennine Basin received input of sand and mud largely from southerly directed rivers from these northern landmasses. The surface deposits comprise thick peat in the upper reaches, with glacial boulder clay and glacial sand and gravel in the lower parts. Glacial lakes once filled Lower Wharfedale in which were deposited sand and gravel. A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground. At that time, the area, known as South Hawes, was sparsely populated and dominated by sand dunes. Extensive sand dunes stretch for several miles between Birkdale and Woodvale to the south of the town. The Ainsdale sand dunes have been designated as a national nature reserve and a Ramsar site. The fine particles that compose shale can remain suspended in water long after the larger particles of sand have deposited. The coarse gravel or crushed ore was introduced into a hole in the centre of the top stone and was rendered to a fine sand. Opposite Exmouth on the west shore is the village of Dawlish Warren with its sand spit extending across the mouth of the estuary. In the HEM process, the intense mixing of cement and water with sand provides dissipation of energy and increases shear stresses on the surface of cement particles. Fireproofing took the form of cast iron columns and beams from which sprang jack arches that were infilled with ash or sand and covered with stone flags or floorboards. The soils, formed from glacial till, sand and gravel are generally fertile and nearly all the land is in arable use growing large areas of wheat, sugar beet and potatoes. Other materials have been used as aggregate instead of sand. There was also a short lived brickworks north of the mere, and sand and gravel extraction also took place in the parish, as well as lime kiln activity. Show More Sentences Beneath the alluvium are widespread deposits of sand and gravel, which also occur as gravel terraces considerably above the height of the current river level. The New Forest Reptile Centre near Lyndhurst is home to all six species of British reptiles including adders, the rare sand lizard and smooth snake. After the third or fourth spraying session, and after the finish has cured for at least 48 hours since the last spraying session, you can begin to wet sand the finish. The next layer is massive, reddish-grey silt with diffused organics, overlain by an interval of varicoloured, deformed and stratified silt and medium sand. The sand was a beautiful gold colour and completely unlittered by kelp or shells, suggesting to me that the waters around Kauai cannot be very productive. Outdoor and sometimes indoor ranges have earth or sand butts. Since River Ribble dredging ceased, the estuary is filling up with sand and is developing a meandering path, depending on the tides and river runoff. Sediments containing more clay tend to be more resistant to erosion than those with sand or silt, because the clay helps bind soil particles together. Tsoar, H. Dynamic processes acting on a longitudinal sand dune. The most important cargo carried was raw cotton from Liverpool to Manchester but timber, dyewoods, pig iron, lead, copper, nails, tar, sand, grain and flour were also carried. The food items were re-classified into seven major groups comprising detritus, pisces, insects macrophyte materials, mud, nematoda and biogenic sand. The race will be run over a variety of terrain, including grass and sand. These deposits include glacial till, sand and gravel and both terminal and recessional moraines left by receding ice sheets at the end of the last ice age. The sand bed is screed in preparation for laying the precast paving. It was a strip of absolute desert, where the only vegetation was the occasional splodge of moss, which lay over the sand edging of the salt flats like livid green cowpats. Examples from Classical Literature From anthranilic acid mixed with powdered glass or sand, and rapidly heated in a retort. The agapanthus, being a heavy feeder, should be grown in strong loam to which is added well rotted manure and a little sand. In a locomotive the air brake and the sand box are elements not found in other engines. The pelican nests are slight depressions in the sand, some of them softened with an algoid matting. The wheel turns ever, and no pleasure of ours but is built on the shifting sand of some one's pain, even as alif told me. In this distance no rock strata appeared, nor any formation other than a jutting ridge of sand, or an alluvial plain. We landed on a sand beach at the mouth of a little stream, where a blazed tree marked the beginning of the ampersand trail. Employing our feeble energies in turns, we dig a trench in the sand where I hope to find the anoxia. Arrived at the creek, they found the shallow sand bar between its mouth and the sea all aboil with confusion. The wide-spread hoofs of the addax antelope enable it to travel over sand at a great pace. His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away. The old moraines of Aconcagua ultimately turn into sand dunes. Genuine Roman cement consists of puzzolene, lime, and sand. An excessive amount of sand in the ash should be classed as adulteration. In a pilot scheme in four villages in North Kordofan, 56 farmers benefited from micro fencing took place for sand dunes fixation. The city forms an immense triangle marked out upon a vast plain of white sand, its acute angle directed toward the north and piercing a corner of the desert. At night, when our sailors, especially the Moors, were in a profound sleep, our vessel ran aground upon a sand bank at the entrance of the harbour. Al-Dousiri, adding that the KISR research revealed that 11 kinds of plants, like Tamarix trees and Rhanterium epapposum plant, proved to be excellent sand dune stabilizers. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sand? Words that rhyme with sand What is the past tense of sand? What is the plural of sand? What is the adverb for sand? What is the adjective for sand? What is the noun for sand? Translations for sand Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Sanctus sanctum sanctorum sanctums sanctum Sanctuary sanctuary sanda sandal sandaled sandalled sandals sandalwood 4-letter Words Starting With s sa san