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    Examples of sand in a Sentence

  • Examples of sand
    1. Sometimes they have to pour immense amounts of sand — like a million pounds in a six-hour period — into a well under superhigh pressure [ … ] .
    2. These surfside Peter Pans survey each summer’s crop of young women on the sand like an incoming class of freshman co-eds on the quad.
    3. The children drew swooshy patterns in the wet sand.
    4. The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
    5. My soil is awful, an unfecund combination of sand, rocks and roots, the ungenerous leavings of Long Island’s glacially bulldozed moraine.
    6. He drew a womblike shape in the sand.
    7. As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.
    8. Burying its head in the sand is fabulously attributed to the ostrich.
    9. a sudden wind blowing sand stingingly into our eyes
    10. an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
  • Examples of sands
    1. Firmless sands. — Sylvester.
    2. The lagoon deposits overlie and interfinger with beach sands in SAV3 and SAV4, which overlie an early Holocene estuary deposit in SAV4.
    3. The stars are as numberless as the sands on a beach.
    4. The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil. ‎
    5. Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.
    6. Displacement on F3 was followed by continued accumulation and onlap of the fine-grained sands of unit 3 on the footwall and development of soil Qb2.
    7. The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.
  • Examples of sanded
    1. The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint. ‎
    2. These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment.
  • Examples of sanding
    1. I can't very well talk to you and concentrate on sanding this at the same time. ‎
    2. wood flour, produced by sanding wood
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