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Meanings of drifting sand in English

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Sand drift.

        Usage of drifting sand in English
        1
        We could not go out for the drifting sand, without being thickly veiled.
        A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Havilan...
        2
        The high cliffs extending from north to south are barriers against the drifting sand.
        The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Serv...
        3
        And now the dead began to speak, their voices toneless as the drifting sand.
        Runemarks
        4
        Yet the débris of masonry may have been largely covered up by drifting sand.
        A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola / Eighth Annu...
        5
        There came a whirlwind, thick with dust, the clay-dust, and drifting sand and gravel.
        Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
        6
        The Navajo will find her if she is not as the grain of drifting sand.
        The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
        7
        Our arms were thickly covered with the drifting sand.
        Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
        8
        It was hardly a cave at all, just a hollow half choked by dry drifting sand.
        The Long War
        9
        These so-called roads are, however, often mere caravan-tracks, sometimes totally hidden by drifting sand or snow.
        A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
        10
        Last week snowploughs were used to clear roads of drifting sand and soil blown from surrounding fields.
        BBC
        11
        The wind blows a hurricane; the drifting sand almost blinds us; and nowhere can we find shelter.
        Canyons of the Colorado
        12
        The plain, which consists of loose, drifting sand, with intervals of hard, stony ground, is called Kandari.
        A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
        13
        A few seconds later they were striding down a ramp kept clear of drifting sand by electrostatic repellers.
        Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
        14
        Like the shape of the gully, clearly formed by drifting sand and silt, piled up over many years.
        Existence
        15
        About one eighth of the surface of the Sahara is said to be thus covered with drifting sand.
        The Elements of Geology
        16
        Upon a knoll which the drifting sand had not yet buried was a thin, wiry covering of grass.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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